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    "content": "of the total public health budget; acknowledging the importance of raising awareness of dementia and ensuring that people with dementia are treated with dignity and respect; appreciating the contribution of non-governmental organizations such as the Africa Mental Health Foundation and the International Institute for Legislative Affairs who provide a platform for sharing of views and experiences on care of people with dementia; noting the need to enhance awareness on and provide better care for patients of dementia; the Senate directs the Standing Committee on Health to immediately initiate review of the existing legislation on health care in order to mainstream and enhance care for patients of dementia and further that the Committee submits a report to the House on the matter within ninety (90) days. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if blessed by God and after being born you grow up, then old age becomes a gift. This is a gift that a few enjoy. This is a gift that can be very detrimental to somebody’s wellbeing, a gift that may not be a blessing at all and which may generate too much weight for the younger generation to carry. I peg this Motion on Article 57 of the Constitution that gives that leeway for good care to the elderly of this country. Dementia invariably is a syndrome. This is a combination of very many diseases of mental ability. In nature, it is just a deterioration of the cognitive action and that is the ability to process thoughts beyond what may be expected from the normal ageing. This is a major cause of disability and especially to the elderly because it affects memory, thinking, and orientation, and comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgment and even eating. It makes one suffer from inability to decide to eat. It causes deterioration of emotional control, social behaviour, interferes with motivation, among other things. In real sense, the major cause may be one particular disease, Alzheimer’s disease which means shrinking of the brain. This may include the following diseases; anxiety disorders, distractive impulse control and conduct disorders, dissociative disorders, feeding and eating disorders, precognitive disorders, neurocognitive disorders, neuro- development disorders, personality disorders, sleep and wake up disorders and many others which include psychosomatic symptoms and related disorders. Even substance and addictive disorders sometimes may follow trauma after an accident. I put this information for the sake of record. You do not have to think very much about it, because it is medically oriented. It is important to note that Alzheimer’s disease is the major culprit here and others like the psychotic disorders, the Parkinson’s disease which follows episodes of boxing. Our known famous boxers age with this kind of trembling disease. Mr. Mohammed Ali is a good example. Some people have impulsive grumbling. They sit and start grumbling. There are also schizophrenia disorders which present themselves like madness where somebody starts running around. There is also the bipolar disorder where somebody in the morning is very happy, but one hour later they turn to a completely different person. The person changes and becomes very unpredictable. Indeed, we have a Bill that was actually legislated in 2012 which, amongst other things, sought to consolidate laws relating to health, provide regulations relating to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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