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The Councilors of Oenegés and Equality of the City council of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez and Juan Francisco Martínez, respectively, have participated this morning in the traditional beneficial sale of flowers of Easter that makes the Association Alzheimer Lorca, next to its president, Inés Martínez.
This event that takes place under the theme "One flower, one memory" has the objective of obtaining resources to continue with the development of the activities that are being carried out by this entity in our municipality.
Our city hosts this act that has been developing consecutively for the last 18 years and that has taken place at different points located in Grecia Street, Alameda de las Columnas, Rafael Méndez Hospital and Virgen del Alcázar Hospital, where it has been got the sale of 750 of these typical Christmas flowers at the discounted price of 5 euros.
It should be noted that this entity serves the group of Alzheimer's patients and other related dementias.
Since the City Council has reaffirmed its full support to the group, stressing that Alzheimer's patients need special and particular attention, something that also require their own families.
Alzheimer Lorca has magnificent facilities in its headquarters, where patients and families can go.
The center serves more than 40 users on issues such as therapeutic activities, psychostimulation workshops, support activities and home rehabilitation, as well as individual, group and training workshops.
Due to its good functioning, there are more and more requests and therefore the work of expanding places are continuous.
The main purposes of this Association are:
1. Provide psychological and moral assistance to family members of those affected by Alzheimer's disease.
2. Advise the relatives of Alzheimer's patients in legal, sociological and economic matters.
3. Provide and disseminate in the media everything that refers to the possible diagnosis of this disease and its therapy, in order to facilitate adequate assistance.
4. Facilitate, improve and control assistance to patients so that their quality of life is the maximum possible.
5. Stimulate studies on the incidence, therapeutic evolution and possible etiology of the disease.
6. To relate with the entities and associations dedicated to the study of the disease, with the purpose of knowing the scientific advances that take place in this matter and, thus, to be able to inform the relatives of the sick ones and to spread them.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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