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In the meetings the doctors, the professors, the
professional caregivers, other experts take part. The main thing is that we
give each other a piece of advice how to behave one way or another while
looking after the patients that ill with this incurable disease.
We communicate and write the messages for the
territorial and republican contributory sickness funds, Ministry of Health.
We ask to return the medicines obligatory for treatment of patients with
Alzheimer’s disease in the list of 100 percent compensated medicines.
We applied to the Municipality, the Ministry of
Social Services regarding the appointment of premises for the Day care
center.
We repeatedly wrote to the Ministry of Health with
the request that the code of the Alzheimer’s disease would be included in
the list of means of nursing which are compensated at the expense of the
funds for the obligatory insurance. Unfortunately, the pampers, the draw
sheets, the ointments for bedsore treatment are not prescribed and are not
compensated until now to the Alzheimer’s patients who has no I degree of
disability.
The introduction of quotas – the restrictions to
prescribe medicines, the restrictions in funds for treatment and
rehabilitation - have put a lot of harm to patients with Alzheimer’s disease
and to their relatives.
Seeking to fill in this gap, we participated in telecasts „Korida“, „The
last crossroads“, „I ask for a word“, „The sun already sits down“, in
broadcasts about health. In the Lithuanian radio broadcast „Health“, more
than once the information on this disease was published. We have started to
publish the annual information magazine " ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, WHAT IS IT?
". Two magazine numbers are printed already. Circulation - 10000 copies.
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