Vor 120 Jahren entdeckt: Diagnose Alzheimer: „Es ging mir natürlich schlecht“
Barbara Edel hat Alzheimer und lebt mit ihrem Mann Hans-Jürg Liebert in Mannheim. Sie genießen gemeinsam, was noch möglich ist - und bereiten sich auf das vor, was wohl kommen wird.
In 1906, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer first described the disease that would later bear his name. The German Alzheimer Society explains that Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 1.8 million people in Germany. Alois Alzheimer identified a loss of nerve cells in the brain, which increasingly limits the abilities of those affected.
For Barbara Edel and her husband Hans-Jürg Liebert, living with Alzheimer's in Mannheim meant that Liebert took on the responsibility of organizing their social life. Five to six years later, Liebert noticed that his wife was increasingly forgetting things, like forgetting to bring a bottle of wine home from the cellar. Over the months, Liebert became increasingly worried about his wife's condition and worried about how to approach her about seeing a doctor.
Despite her denial, Edel eventually agreed to go to the doctor with her husband. In September 2023, Barbara Edel received the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
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