Even things like dressing, cleaning themselves, eating, handling a knife and fork are difficult tasks. For the staff and also for the patients, it's a stage of the disease where you have to support them a lot with their failing capacities. |
More and more patients are occupying institutional beds because in these later stages (of Alzheimer's) you have difficulty caring for these patients in their own homes. I think our health-care system will collapse in the future if we cannot solve the question both with care and drugs. |
This drug is effective in the severe stage of Alzheimer's. It greatly reduces caregiver burden. |