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Lack of facilities for Alzheimer's victims

By JUDY CREIGHTON The Canadian Press

Alzheimer’s disease is the fourth most common killer after cancer, heart disease and stroke, but people know more about AIDS than Alzheimer’s. And that troubles Len Fabiano.

The problem is exacerbated because we “rarely see Alzheimer’s di as the cause of death,” says Fabiano, a consultant to Canadian nursing homes and counsellor to the elderly and their families.

Alzheimer's is characterized by a deterioration in memory and thinking abilities, and people suffering from the disease often need constant care. It occurs in two to three per cent of the population over 60 years of age, and in more than 20 per cent of those over 80. There is no known method of prevention or cure.

The changes associated with it occur in the proteins of the nerve cells in the cerebral cortex — the outer layer of the brain — leading to an accumulation of abnormal fibres.

Under a microscope these changes appear as a tangle of filaments. These tangles were first described in 1906 by Alois Alzheimer, a German logist.

Fabiano, who lectures across Canada on caring for Alzheimer's victims, said in an interview that we are only seeing the “tip of the iceberg” in the number of people with the disorder.

DEADLY DISEASE

In Canada, it is estimated that at least 10,000 deaths a year are attributed to the disease and as many as 100,000 to 300,000 people may be affected to varying degrees.

Fabiano, a registered nurse who studied aging at the University of Michigan, says he is concerned about the lack of facilities to treat victims of Alzheimer's disease.

ially in outlying ities.

“It's particularly troublesome because many people choose to remain in or retire to rural areas, where health care services are limited. This puts the burden of care on the victim's family — if he or she has one.”

Fabiano, whose office is in Seagrave, Ont., west of Peterborough, said that most nursing homes are bulging at the seams” and find it is a real “struggle” to admit yet another patient with the disease.

In addition, victims need a special type of care.

“Many programs were developed between 1978 and 1981" to train staff in Canadian nursing homes in recognizing the various stages of the disease. But Fabiano said he's “always amazed by nurses’ aides who are usually so good with victims of the disease they seem to do it by instinct.”

HONESTY NEEDED With families of victims, Fabiano said it is important n and honest. ° ants them as much information as possible on the disease and try to help them deal with the guilt feelings, because no matter what options you give families there is no way they'll walk away looking good.”

The families he’s dealt with say Alzheimer's disease is a “living hell,” but most are willing to cope.

“It helps if they can share their fears and resent ments with family, friends and professional counsellors.”

‘Anyone caring for an Alzheimer's vietim may need a wide variety of assistance through the course of the disease, he said.

Fabiano would like to see local hospitals and nursing homes admit Alzheimer's victims for short periods to give the families a respite.

“Most families in this situation are working at their maximum. They are exhausted by the often 24-hour care victims require and need a break.”

Fabiano also said families should periodically assess their ability to continue providing care.

“If, after an open discussion with all family members and friends, the decision is to try institutional care, it is essential to plan in advance since desirable facilities usually have long waiting lists,” he said.

And he advises families to contact local chapters of the Alzheimer Society of Canada, where they will meet others who face many of the same problems.

WEALTH OF THE AVERAGE FAMILY SOARS

OTTAWA (CP) — The average wealth of Canadian families and i — the di what they owned and what they owed — was $85,344 in 1964, 84 per cent more than in 1977, Statistics Canada reports.

But the surge of inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s robbed them of most of that new-found wealth.

Inflation increased by about 80 per cent over that period, reducing the increase in real wealth to a mere 4.3 per cent.

The latest survey of the wealth of Canadians conducted in May 1984, the first such survey since 1977, also shows, as expected, the wealth of families varied dramatically depending on family incomes.

Familes with incomes of less than $5,000 had an average wealth of $24,028, and for more than half of those families the average wealth was less than $1,000.

In contrast, the average wealth of families with incomes of more than $60,000 was $293,468, with just over half reporting wealth of $150,000 or more.

And as in earlier surveys, the home was the major asset of families, accounting for 43 per cent of the total value of assets. A further 21 per cent of total assets were

d for by i: in i farms and professional practices while liquid and other financial assets accounted for 22 per cent.

TAX SHELTERS POPULAR

Registered retirement savings plans and the now abolished registered home ownership savings plans were popular places for families to stash some of their wealth with 30 per cent saying they had either one or the other or both of the savings tax shelters.

And 28 per cent of families held Canada Savings Bonds while only 14 per cent had some ownership in a business, farm or professional practice.

On the debt side, mortgages on homes accounted for nine per cent of the liabilities of families, the largest

Misogyny not uncommon

By KIRK LaPOINTE CP Lifestyles Editor

He had sculpted, movie-star features, he was brilliant and captivating, and he was p ing love. On their second date, he proposed marriage — how could she resist?

In marriage, he remained publicly affectionate. The two of them were, it seemed to others, a match made in heaven. But privately, puzzlingly, he started subtly chipping away at her confidence.

She dismissed these swipes as out of character. No one this Formdntically demonstrative could be a monster. Slowly but-surely, however, he was skewering her self-esteem.

His weapons were words and moods — contemptuous brow-beatings whenever she seemed assertive, constant demeaning of her views and accomplishments. Reduced to

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MONTREAL (CP) Now

many more will suffer eye problems, possibly even blindness, says a Montreal eye expert.

Dr. Alain Rousseau says diabetes, which affects about five per cent of Canadians, is now considered the leading

Yet, says Rousseau, little money is spent on research ing eye problems.

In 1940, only about two per cent of all diabetics suffered from eye problems caused by the disease.

self-doubt, she would bend backwards to please him, even spend hours rehearsing servile conversations so she wouldn't upset him.

This form of psychological abuse is called misogyny, derived from the Greek words for “hate” and “woman.” and Los Angeles psychologist Susan Forward believes it is not an isolated social phenomenon

Little has been written about it, but Forward’s research suggests that misogyny may occur in as many as two of five relationships.

Forward champions the cause for victims of misogyny in a new self-help book, Men Who Hate Women and The Women Who Love Them (Batan, $19.95). Through her private practice and radio program in the United States, she has encountered countless such troubles.

But the case she best remembers is the aforementioned speedy marriage to the handsome romantic. The case was her own.

“I was blamed for everything,” Forward said in an interview. “And the more he called me selfish and uncaring. the more I apologized, capitulated and sabotaged my career for him.”

Just as she learned to please him, new demands would be made.

“The signals are always changing,” she said. “It's like running a race with no finish line. No matter what I did, it was never enough.”

Certain family patterns establish misogynists and women who will stay with them.

Usually, Forward said, women-haters come from families whose fathers are either passive or frightening whose sons are dependent on their mothers. That reliance and its accompanying fears, frustrations and conflicts are later transferred to the women in their lives.

“The women tell me: ‘Give me physical abuse anytime

that can be handled, that is predictable,” Forward said “This isn't.”

But why do women endure misogynists? As girls, their parents’ marriage becomes a model on which their relationships will be based. If their fathers are abusive. Forward says, girls learn that women submit and tolerate anything to hang on to their men

What to do about it? An easy answer is to leave. But Forward’s book tells women how to modify a man's behavior

without necessarily modifying his attitudes, which are pretty much entrenched — and to preserve the relationship.

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single form of debt owed by families.

Fifty nine per cent of families owned their own home, which had an average value of $71,588, and 49 per cent still had a mortgage to pay off, with an average of $29,197 outstanding.

The 1984 survey also shows that families headed by a person born outside Canada had an average wealth of $101,971, 15 per cent more than the $81,158 wealth of a family with heads born in Canada.

A breakdown by region reveals that on average families in the Prairie region are the wealthiest in the country, reporting a net worth of $111,507, and families in the Atlantic region the poorest with $58,343.

Company keeps sexes separate

THAMESVILLE, Ont. into soap pads or cutting and

(CP) — Martina Navratilova and Bjorn Borg don't play tennis together and a spokes. man for Thamesville Metal Products said it's equally incongruous to think of men and women working should er-to-shoulder at this plant

General manager Robert Schieman said the 27 union ized men and women who work at the steel wool manu facturing plant in this com munity northeast of Chatham perform different jobs for different pay

Schieman said he wouldn't want his wife or daughter to work alongside men in a fac tory

“I can't stop these men from this rotten, dirty talk,” he said. “I don't think it's a great situation. I don't know why any woman would want the job.”

Under the last contract the men received $8.60 an hour, while the women got $6.40.

packaging it.

Walker said although the jobs are different, the women work as hard as the men and should be earning at least as much

He said one of the factors stopping women from apply ing for the higher paying jobs is that there's no set training period to ensure they have a fair opportunity to prove they can do the job as well as men.

The work includes adjust ing heavy equipment and moving steel products that can weigh more than 660 kilograms.

“It took me a full month to learn the job,” Walker said.

“There are women in there who are stronger than I am.”

Schieman said in his 32 years with the plant he's never had a woman ask for a job in the higher paying section. But Walker said he knows of at least one female employee who would like to

Quebec mood upbeat

By DENNIS BUECKERT Gone are the days of self-pity or futile anger — Quebec

agree

climate in the province has undergone a profound change since the days when separatists reigned and head offices fled.

Tangible evidence of the new mood can be seen in many areas — from Montreal's current construction boom to the Quebec government's improved credit rating. It is seen in the success of the Montreal Exchange and in the flood of Quebec companies going for the first time.

It is seen most of all in the attitudes of Quebecers, who are no longer leaving in droves for Ontario and the West but are staying home to build up their own economy.

“In the past 10 years there has been a dramatic change

Ltd. of Toronto, says ’ pr

the same point last year. And property values in some areas have doubled in 12 months.

‘The situation could hardly present a sharper contrast with that of 10 years ago, as the Parti Quebecois began ing its policies and preparing for a on ig

Statistics Canada figures show the net outflow of

to other provinces in 1977-78 totalled more than 46,000. The population hemorrhage continued at an averge rate of nearly 27,000 people annually over the next five years, and was accompanied by the departure of numerous corporate head offices.

Royal Bank of Canada economist Reza Ghaeli predicts that in 1986, for the first time in a decade, Quebec will experience a net inflow of population from other

Not surprisingly, there was jubilation in Montreal when Ultramar Inc., recently announced it was moving its head office back to the city, after having left for the Toronto area in 1979.

CUTS INCOME TAX Ultramar president Jean Gaulin said the return was based on business, not political, considerations but he did

is being replaced by their itnerest in business and making money.

Letourneau adds that in the past four or five years, Quebec has turned out more graduates in business adminis- tration than any other province.

Quebec Chamber of Commerce figures show the province has gained 10,000 new businesses annually in the past four years — those figures are net, after failures have been subtracted.

Probably the most concrete evidence of the new dynamism in Quebec is the construction boom in Montreal. Statisties from the city’s development office show that commercial] cafstruction in the region at the beginning of September was up by 45 per cent over the previous year.

The residential sector is even stronger, with construction so far this year about 54 per cent higher than at

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ledge the decision was made easier by cuts in personal income tax introduced by Finance Minister Gerard Levesque in last May's budget.

Gaulin said there used to be a 10 per cent difference in the marginal tax rate between Quebec and Ontario, and now it is only five per cent.

Letourneau says Premier Robert Bourassa has done much to improve the climate, but he also notes that the ground was prepared by the Parti Quebecois.

For example, he said, the PQ requirement that business contracts be in French led many large companies dominated by anglophones to put francophones on their senior staff.

On top of that, the exodus of anglophone businessmen and managers created opportunities for francophones who moved into the vacated positions, where they were quickly recognized as a “new breed.” -

executives are men

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A survey of top officers of U.S. corporations shows that they're mostly in their mid 40s, married, slightly over- weight and take home $175- 000 annually in salary and perks.

Mostly, they're men, says the 16th annual survey by the University of Michigan.

“This year’s results recon- firm last year’s finding that the number of women pro- moted into the highest execu- tive ranks was dropping off,” said the four professors who conducted the study.

“One, of the most per- plexing results of this year's survey is the fact that the percentage of women pro- moted into vice presidential level positions has fallen rel ative to the number of women promoted to other levels of management.”

The study was done by professors Hebert Hilde brandt, Edwin Miller and Floyd Bond of the univer sity's business school and Dee Edington of the school's physical education and fit ness research centre.

They mailed more than 2,000 questionnaires between July 1985 and June 1986 and received responses from 818 corporate chief executive off. icers, presidents and vice presidents.

The study says a typical executive drinks a little alco hol, seldom smokes, is about 10 pounds overweight but otherwise healthy, and val

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