The elderly constitute nearly a quarter of the French population. They are rare in public places, almost absent from the media, disappeared from the world of travail.Les are too many demographers, politicians consider them expensive and doctors, relayed by the media, paint a type dominated by damage and Alzheimer's. Very well researched and argued with great finesse and reflection, celivre leads us to think and to "think instead, real and symbolic, that our society reserves for old and expose ideas that courssur old age" . A book on the look of the company to its "old" to read with great interest: To fight against exclusion insidious old today are the victims, such as to prevent us, when our turn comes, of live our last two or three years in the disease and rejection.

At night, all the old are gray
Jérôme Pellissier - 360 pages
Bibliophane Edition - Daniel Radford
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The care of Alzheimer's

Where we discover that one confuses the "Alzheimer's" very rare genetic disorder (affecting a few hundred families in the world) and "senile dementia of the Alzheimer type," strange disease of unknown or the causes or risk factors or protective, that one can not diagnose that by default, using tests that often lead to consider "denial" of old who are not, we can not soigner.Etrange to disease, which affects mainly the developed countries, older living in institutions, the old backgrounds défavorisés.Etranges patients, deemed insane and amnesia, which, as soon as one takes the trouble to listen, reflect a surprising fact psychique.Que cache this "Alzheimer's" that we do not want to be responsible to find a hypothetical gene? And if it were part of a pathology of the fear of death, in a society that represses, a pathology of fear of aging in a society that refuses?