TESTING FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE


Photo essay. A speech therapist is doing a home visit at a person affected by Alzheimers's disease (beginning of the disease). The speech therapist is exercising the memory of the patient through series of exercices consisting in asking him questions and asking him to recognize, describe then memorize objects taken in photography. Here, the patient has to write words the speech therapist is dictating him.


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Photo credit: © MENDIL / BSIP / Alamy / Afripics
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