UNDERSTANDING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
JE ME FORME
ANGLAIS
Professeur d’anglais aux Ifsi de Nancy et auteur de Maîtriser l’anglais médical L’Anglais médical pratique et L’Anglais en ergothérapie, aux éditions Lamarre
In a neurology unit, a tutor (T) is reviewing a trainee nurses’ (N) and an occupational therapy student’s (OT) knowledge on Alzheimer’s disease before practical training starts off.
T: As you should know, Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative pathology. What do you think should first be done if Alzheimer’s is suspected?
OT: Early diagnosis, adapted and personalized care aim to preserve the patient’s autonomy, and also to support caregivers or significant others.
T: Any idea on the number of patients and the frequency of this pathology in France?
N: I guess more than 900,000 people, with the pathology increasing with age, affecting 3% of people over 65 and more than 20% of those over 80, and women twice as often as men.
OT: And it’s the most common major neurocognitive disorder of the elderly, about 70% of cases, which makes it ahead of vascular dementia.
T: What do you know about the clinical signs?
OT: Clinical signs manifest in cognitive and executive disorders, resulting in memory disturbances, difficulty organizing thought, reasoning...