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Report April - September 2024

Important dates:

Senior Citizen Festival, April 5 to 7, 2024.

Presentation of the film “La memoria infinita”, May 6, 2024

Mother's Day, May 10, 2024

Father's Day, June 16, 2024

Models of Care event, June 2024

Inauguration of Pitagoras 545, August 15, 2024

Senior Citizens Day, August 28, 2024

World Alzheimer's Day, September 21, 2024

Prof. Donath Lecture, UNAM September 23, 2024

Interview Qué tal Fernanda, September 24, 2024

Dear friends,

we send many greetings and hugs from Mexico.

In this report we will talk about the activities between April and September 2024. It has been months of hard work and events to inform society about dementia, its timely diagnosis, access to treatment, care, prevention, information and timely training of caregivers.

It is with great joy that we share with you that starting in May we began to implement a project together with the German Embassy in Mexico to whom we express our deepest gratitude for this collaboration. The project focuses on a very important aspect of our work: the gender perspective.

On the one hand, more elderly women are affected by dementia than men because of the longer life expectancy of women. Since age is the only certain risk factor, more women live longer and therefore, unfortunately, also have a higher incidence. On the other hand, it is also women who are responsible for more than 80% of the care of people with dementia.

Centro Mexicano Alzheimer has put emphasis in its activities in the past months on empowering women, giving them tools and information, training them in specific care and accompanying them in the process.

At the Festival of the Elderly held at the World Trade Center in April, many interested people came to our booth, where they obtained information and participated in our lectures and cognitive challenges. We were very happy to welcome Luis and his wife. Luis has been with us for 5 years and his progress and the slowing down of the dementia is amazing, congratulations!

In May we participated in an event with the Chilean and German Embassies in Mexico by screening the movie “La memoria infinita” (The endless memory) and then leading a discussion with the protagonist Paulina Urrutia and the president of the Mexican Alzheimer´s Center, Regina Altena, under the leadership of Chilean Ambassador Beatriz Sanchez. We also celebrated our traditional Mother's Day on May 10 with a special online event.

June and July there were celebrations between Father's Day and the special event with the German Embassy who invited Mrs. Jasmin Arabian-Vogel, president of the Union of Businesswomen and owner of several care companies in Germany, with a very interesting conference about the differences in the models of care in Germany and Mexico.

August 28 is the day of the elderly that is celebrated every year in Mexico and this year Centro Mexicano Alzheimer did it in a big way, in Plaza Garibaldi, emblematic square of typical music. “Mariachiterapia por una memoria sana” (Mariachitherapy for a healthy memory) attracted many people to sing and dance with the mariachis of Grupo Amazonas. Congratulations!

September is Alzheimer's month worldwide and here we had special events and a lot of information and interviews in the media. For our big event on September 21 at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City we had - under the slogan 30,000 hands for a healthy memory - not only many participants, but also an orchestra, theater, dancing, singing and many activities for motor stimulation, activities of daily living, cognitive and social activities. Each link and memory contribute to the collective memory to persist and bear new fruits.

We invited Prof. Dr. Carolin Donath from the University of Erlangen in Germany to the event and to some subsequent conferences, including the one given at UNAM and the interview in Grupo Imagen in the program Qué tal Fernanda - with Fernanda Familiar.

Among the many activities of these weeks, we want to end this report with the good news that Centro Mexicano Alzheimer has again a physical Day Care Center that complements the virtual activities with the face-to-face ones. From Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm we invite you to visit us at Pitagoras 545, Col. Narvarte, Benito Juarez, CP 03020, Mexico City. In a warm and friendly atmosphere, we look forward to seeing you, whether you are a visitor, an elderly person -with or without dementia- or a caregiver. There is care, prevention and training as one of the more than 90 women we have trained in recent months.

We thank all of you for your contribution to this work that without your support would not be possible. Thank you, thank you very much!

Dear friends,

Receive a big greeting and embrace from Mexico.

This report covers the period from December 2023 to March 2024. We will tell you how we closed the year 2023 and what were the activities of this 2024.

As every year we celebrated the Day of Love and Friendship in February, International Women's Day in March, and the beginning of spring, also in March.
From April 5 to 7 we had an extraordinary event in Mexico City, the Senior Citizen Festival at the World Trade Center, in its tenth edition. It is itinerant between Guadalajara, Leon and CDMX. Now we share with you an image and in the next report we will tell you more details of this wonderful event where the Mexican Alzheimer Center had a stand, cognitive and stimulation activities, raffle, sale of products with cause and talks to the attendees.

Now we share with you the rest of the activities:

Christmas - celebration on December 20, 2023.

We closed the year 2023 on a high note with our Christmas celebration on December 20, 2023. The staff and social service students of the Mexican Alzheimer's Center took great care to present a very moving celebration that made it possible for the elderly and their families to participate. From the Wishing Sphere and Merry Christmas, Santa Claus to the song Bells on Bells there was a wide range of fun numbers and deep reflections: Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!

Love and Friendship Day, February 14, 2024

We celebrated Love and Friendship Day or Valentine's Day with special gusto. There was Food for the Heart, Love Roulette, Cupid's Feats and the song Obsession, but all in all lots and lots of love, affection and more love. Congratulations! Here's to the values of sincere and lasting friendship.

International Women's Day, March 8, 2024

As there are more women than men with some form of dementia and as women are the majority of caregivers at home, it is imperative to commemorate International Women's Day every March 8. This year there were varied participations from reflections on 'Being a woman and being myself' to 'Remembering great women' as we are all the women of the Mexican Alzheimer's Center.

We send a big hug to the women who support us in our work, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Spring, March 21, 2024

March 21 is not only celebrated as the beginning of spring with the equinox of the sun, but also the birthday of Benito Juarez, former president of Mexico. This year these celebrations were joined by the beginning of Holy Week and Easter.
The seniors learned about the colors and flowers of spring, they were coloring the emotions and forming the pot of my life. Music could not be missing and all together they sang the Hymn to Joy, initiating Easter.

Senior Citizen Festival, April 5 to 7, 2024

We will tell you more about this event that attracted many people from Mexico City and other states of the Republic in our next report.

Thank you for your support always! Help us in this time of Little by Little Campaign where your contributions will be multiplied and more seniors will have access to online non-pharmacological therapies!

THANK YOU!