Social issues of the Alzheimer’s patient and family

Abstract

Alzheimer’s is one of the most proliferated disease in the world. It’s possible to diagnose this disease and even in Georgia it’s possible to do so, but the country’s healthcare system can’t offer anything else to its society and usually, the one who takes care of the diseased one is the Family Member of the patient. This is why our research focus was to determine the situation in the families of the diseased ones in Georgia. Particulary, our goal was to research the problems and the requirements of the people with alzhaimer’s and their families using qualitative method, in particular Biographical-Narrative interview, using which was gathered required data. Analysis of the data showed the small role government plays in the life of a diseased one and it only limits itself with a pension and the only responsible ones for the medical examination and other economical or social factors, which sums up itself with the lack of governmental services or about not enough information about them at all, is the families of the diseased ones. On the other hand, families of the diseased ones, do not have information about NGOs at all or they just are not interested in the programs offered by them.