Hello, welcome to the presentation
of our course on Alzheimer’s disease.
In a few minutes,
I would like to present
how this course is organized,
so you can see if that might interest you or be relevant for you.
This course on Alzheimer’s disease
is for you
if you are interested by this disease and if you simply want
to known more about it, and if you are curious. Of course, it may answer
some of your expectations if you have a person in your circle
affected by this disease,
and want to understand better what it happens. Also, it will interest you
if you have around you a elderly person who complains
of memory loss and that you want give him/her good advices.
Finally, this MOOC may interest you if you are a health professionals
and if you are in contact
with these patients or caring them,
or simply put if you want to refresh your knowledge on this topic.
No need to be an expert to follow this MOOC.
We worked to do it with minimal jargon
so that knowledge is expressed
in the clearest way possible. But of course, they are
well validated knowledge scientifically and quite current
that will be proposed in the course.
The objectives of our course are relatively simple:
it is to present
the disease as a whole a simple
and comprehensible manner; it is also
to make known the natural evolution of the disease
and the symptoms of this disease.
Another important objective is to present the diagnostic process
and to explain a bit how specialists diagnose this disease.
Finally,
we also examine the possibilities of care,
and patient monitoring and we discuss last tracks
of research and pathways for the future in this disease. In this course,
we will address not only Alzheimer's disease
but also
related diseases,
I mean cousin illnesses
- other than Alzheimer’s disease -
that produce cognitive impairment.
In this course, we will see a large number
of experts who will give us their insight
on various courses. Here is a detailed list
of all these experts.
I want to thank them for their participation.
Among them, there are faculty professors of geriatrics, of neurology,
field practitioners, psychologists, families of patients. You will see
they will bring us a very valuable insight on throughout the course.
I would like also to introduce myself.
I'm Joel Belmin and I am faculty professor of geriatrics
at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
and I also managed a geriatric ward
at the Hôpital Charles Foix, an hospital located
in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris.
I am also the coordinator for gerontology Trans-Innov
Longevity program, a program that develops the teaching of gerontology
through new technologies, the TIL program in which
we have created this MOOC on Alzheimer's disease.
In addition, I have many other activities and many of them relate
to Alzheimer's disease: I coordinate a medical team at the hospital
and effectively together, we treat many patients
affected by this disease.
I myself do medical consultations for memory disorders and
geriatrics at the memory clinic
of my hospital.
At university, I also give classes and I coordinate many courses
which I also brought explain what Alzheimer's disease.
I also coordinate medical books that also address these topics
and I run a website that is dedicated to
geriatrics and gerontology teaching. You can see the URL adress
Of the website at the bottom of this slide.
This course on Alzheimer's disease is organized
with ten successive sequences each about twenty
minutes.
In each of these sequences,
we will invite experts who will give
their insight
on the topic.
The user manual for this course is very simple.
Simply register to get access codes
and all information needed to connect
and follow progress. Then you have watch
the presentations that are proposed.
You also have to answer
the quizz associated to the presentations.
At the end to get
a certificate of participation
if you have watched the ten sequences
and if you did ten sessions quiz associated with the course and the final quiz.
That's all simple. I hope that this presentation will stir
your curiosity and you will register at our course. So, we will meet again
for several weeks to learn more about Alzheimer's disease and to finally find
all you ever wanted to know about Alzheimer's disease.
See you very soon, I hope, on the Alzheimer MOOC.