The Sant Pau Modernist Site in Barcelona has hosted a talk on Alzheimer's that has included the participation of the actress and patient of the Sant Pau Hospital, Carme Elias; who publicly announced that he was suffering from Alzheimer's a year and a half ago; the president of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Cristina Maragall, and the Dr. Alberto Leon, director of the Neurology Service at Sant Pau.
The president of the Foundation, Cristina Maragall, has intervened in the session providing his testimony as a family member of a person with Alzheimer'sHe also explained the advances in research into the disease in recent years, the importance of caregivers and the evolution of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation.
In addition to the debate between the three participants, moderated by the journalist Cristina Puig, a video was also shown to explain the work of the Memory Unit of the Hospital de Sant Pau and fragments of the documentary 'As long as it's you' by filmmaker Claudia Pinto, who has been following the actress since she was diagnosed with the disease.
