World Alzheimer's Day 2025: Understanding dementia and helping in the district!

World Alzheimer's Day 2025: Understanding dementia and helping in the district!

World Alzheimer's Day is celebrated worldwide on September 21st, and this important topic is also coming into focus in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district. This year's slogan "Questions about Dementia" is intended to highlight the uncertainties and information needs of both those affected and their relatives. This initiative is particularly relevant considering that the World Health Organization estimates that dementia affects around 55 million people worldwide and the number continues to rise. In Germany alone, around 1.8 million people live with dementia, with the disease predominantly affecting older people and women being affected more often than men, reports ladadi.de.

Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia and presents relatives with major challenges in care and support. In order to counteract these burdens, the district has built up a dense network of assistance. This includes the dementia service center in Groß-Zimmern, which offers advice and support for those affected and their relatives. Those too Alzheimer Society Darmstadt-Dieburg e.V. offers self-help groups and discussion groups to promote exchange and support among those affected.

Diverse offers of help in the district

The list of support offers is long and ranges from numerous care facilities with special living areas for people with dementia to four dementia living communities in the towns of Erzhausen, Ober-Ramstadt, Seeheim-Jugenheim and Weiterstadt. The district's nursing base, which is located in Dieburg, Pfungstadt, Ober-Ramstadt and in Loop 5 in Weiterstadt, also advises relatives of dementia sufferers and has continuously expanded its offerings in recent years.

This year's motto for World Alzheimer's Day "Dementia - Being and Staying Human" reminds us that people with dementia are not only defined by their illness. They have individual skills, interests and life experiences. The diagnosis of “dementia” often leads to a misperception that those affected can no longer perceive anything. However, this assumption is wrong - although dementia changes, it does not take away people's ability to feel emotions such as joy, fear and pain. Knowledge, understanding and support in the environment can make a decisive contribution to ensuring that the disease fades into the background deutsche-alzheimer.de emphasized.

Invitation to search for information

For anyone who would like to find out more about the offers and events surrounding World Alzheimer's Day, all information is available online at ladadi.de/alzheimer. This week it is more important than ever to promote dialogue about dementia and raise awareness of the challenges faced by those affected and their families. Let’s work together to promote exchange and support – because every voice counts!