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By BARB JOY Oakville Beaver Staff The Oakville Parentâ€"Child Centre at 337 Kerr St., is a commuâ€" nity service organization providing educational and creative programs for parents and their children, outâ€" reach services, dropâ€"ins, and a teen mothers‘ program. f Mary Everrett, speaking to a group of nurses and nursesâ€"inâ€"trainâ€" ing at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital recently, said the research studies by a British research team may provide only one facet of the whole research picture. "This one provides a piece of the puzzle," said Everrett. (Appropriately enough, the news broke during January which is tradiâ€" tionally Alzheimer Awareness Month.) The grant comes from a $915,000 allocation to 47 local volâ€" unteerâ€"run, social service organizaâ€" tions in central Ontario. Over 50 volunteerâ€"run provinceâ€"wide organiâ€" zations share some $8.9 million in funding. > s > =/. z52â€" The Ontario Trillium Foundation, founded in 1982, receives $17 milâ€" lion annually,to support social serâ€" vice agencies, from proceeds from Ontario Lottery Corporation profits. The British researchers believed they had found a cause of the disâ€" ease by concluding it was linked to the "resprouting" of brain nerve cells that occurs in everyone beginâ€" ning in their 50s. When the number of nerve cells decrease, others try to compensate by growing to fill the Trillium funds to Parentâ€"Child 0/ a !* o CUSTOMâ€"MADE B FREE SHOP 4 AT HOME SERVICE C gg W (fi% w S3 3 k %}m & ’i \.â€"/ } i @LXL %i"fi Wa[[coverinfl Sole CUSTOM VERTICALS and 14th Semi Annual gaps left by those that had died (resprouting). In this process, a proâ€" tein chemical is involved and it was an excess of this protein that trigâ€" gered Alzheimer‘s in some people. Everrett fielded questions about other publicized theories about the causes of Alzheimer‘s, including aluminum. She noted that this metal, found by one researcher in large quantities in the brains of patients, is consumed by everyone. It is found in foods such as coffee, flour and baby formula. "If it is the cause, then all of us should get Alzheimer‘s," noted Everrett. Nor does every aging person get Alzheimer‘s, although it is a disease of older people that is marked by gradual memory loss, declining ability to perform routine tasks, poor judgement, disorientation and personality change, among other symptoms. She compared the patient to someone who suddenly finds himself dropped off on a forâ€" eign train platform and is completeâ€" ly at a loss with no one to underâ€" stand his predicament. "There is an underlying fear and a lot of frustration," she said. "It‘s different than the lapses of memory everyone has sometimes. We‘ll eventually remember that name we‘ve forgotten or we‘ll do whatevâ€" er has slipped our minds at the moment. Alzheimer patients, on the other hand, can‘t tap into their memory of how to do things and so they don‘t know what to do if, say, there‘s a fire." Should symptoms occur, the patient should have a complete neurological and physical evaluaâ€" tion with CAT Scan, and studies of the blood and spinal fluid system can often reveal what the cause of the malady isn‘t before concluding what it is, she said. Since no cure or reversal of the disease is available, to a great extent treatment rests with the patients‘ families and their docâ€" tors.These can, at best, provide as much comfort for the patient as posâ€" sible. Since each person functions at a different level, each requires a difâ€" ferent type of care. Unfortunately, when patients deteriorate to the point that they must be institutionalâ€" ized, there are few places in Halton for them to go, said Everrettâ€"Some are accommodated in old age resiâ€" dences which are ill equipped to Oakyille Paint & Wallpaper Ltd. (416) 845â€"0341 257 Lakeshore Road E., Oakville keep a wandering patient inside Moreover, the aging of the preâ€" sent population and the predicted increase in Alzheimer patients from 1,658 in Halton in 1990 to 2,754 in 2001 will put even more strain on the few services existing in the community. # "Most Alzheimer patients won‘t be in long term care because access is very limited," she noted. "You‘ll be seeing a lot more patients in the community." & Everrett challenged the nursing audience to consider a change in providing care to Alzheimer patients in the future. Although their physical needs have so far been addressed, she thought patients needed a "more holistic" type of care that also took into conâ€" sideration their emotional and psyâ€" chological needs. She explained that the national Alzheimer Society has set down guidelines for the care of patients. It is also involved in advocacy on behalf of patients and in bringing support and information to their relâ€" atives and friends. Two area resource centres â€" one in Hamilton and the Halton centre in Appleview Square in Burlington â€" carry free sensory stimulation materials for patients and provide an information series, a library and dropâ€"in centre for caregivers as well as maintainâ€" ing a Wandering Patient Registries for their respective regions. Currently, the Halton registry carâ€" ries 400 names. For information, call 637â€"1338. Mary Everrett February 17, 1993