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Current AffairsGovernment wants comprehensive, long-term strategy for Alzheimer’s sufferers and caregivers
At the present time there are around 120 thousand people with Alzheimer’s
disease in the Czech Republic. Health experts say they expect that number
to quadruple in the next forty years as the average life expectancy grows
and the population ages, making it a serious social and health problem.
This week the government asked four Czech ministries to produce a
comprehensive, long-term strategy aimed at making life easier both for
Alzheimer’s sufferers and their families. More
Current AffairsSeniors’ rights discussed in wake of care home abuse scandal
In July, the paper Mladá fronta Dnes exposed neglect and abuse in a care
home for the elderly in Prague. This Tuesday, the minister for human rights
Džamila Stehlíková met some of the Czech Republic’s leading
gerontologists to discuss the problem and unveil a template for seniors’
rights. Iva Holmerová is the head of the Czech Society of Gerontology, and
one of Minister Stehlíková’s leading advisors on the issue. When I met
Doctor Holmerová earlier today, she said that the care scandal was only
part of a wider picture:
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Banished by the communist regime as a bourgeois vegetable, asparagus makes
a come-back in the Czech Republic. Fakir Petr Fiedor spends ten days lying
on a bed of broken glass and, why is a planned overpass for bears creating
animosity in the town of Jablůnkov? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela
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Share-prices on the Prague Stock Exchange have slumped to their lowest
level since November 2006, Škoda car sales around the world increased by
14.5 percent last year and Visa has apologized for a glitch in its
transaction system in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary that left an
unspecified number of customers with duplicated withdrawals on their
accounts.
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