"Through this book I wanted to talk about Alzheimer's disease in all its hardness and complexity through the eyes of a very young girl, in a simple, direct and without prejudices," explained Manuela Donghi. "I created a character deliberately nameless and relatives in the nursing home where the story is set just so they could tell the reality impartially. The emotional involvement of the protagonist comes slowly and corresponds to one of his inner growth, which pushes more and more to attend "that place" as she defines itself in a sort of personal diary. "
Part of the proceeds of the book will be donated to Friends "Centro Dino Ferrari ', which supports and promotes scientific research of the same center in the field of neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases.
Today in Italy Alzheimer's patients are 600 thousand (Censis, Aima 2016) and, due to the aging of the population, are expected to rise. To Italy the country's longest-serving records in Europe, with 13.4 million sixty, 22% of the population.
"The direct costs for the care of Alzheimer's patients exceed 11 billion Euros, of which 73% is borne by households. According to statistics, in Italy there is an emerging pattern of increasingly informal and private care: in half of the cases the assistance is the responsibility of the children, while 38% of patients is taken by a caregiver, "noted Manuela Donghi. "Finally, it should be emphasized that the vast majority of patients will not be followed either by a grape or a public center (56.6%)."
more than the population of Spain, and are intended to reach 131, 5 million by 2050. Today, the cost of the disease is 818 billion worldwide people with Alzheimer's are 46 million (ADI- Alzheimer's Disease International - 2014), - that is equal to an even higher market value than the giants the likes of Apple (742 billion), Google (368 billion). Only in the course of 2015 there were more than 9.9 million new cases of dementia worldwide, ie one new case every 3.2 seconds.