From tomorrow, 21 November, until 23 November, at the New Hall of the Synod, the Vatican City, will take place the XXVIII international conference ‘The Church at the Service of Sick Elderly People: Care for People with Neurodegenerative Pathologies’.

This international conference will be opened by Msgr. Zygmunt Zimowski, the President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers (for Health Pastoral Care).

Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, treatment and care for the elderly, and accompanying during the final stage of life will be the sensitive subjects addressed this year.

‘Old age’, declared the Message of the Pontifical Council published on the occasion of the International Year of Older Persons 2013, ‘is not the disappearance of life but its completion…Through solidarity between the young and the old one has a way of understanding how the Church is really a family of all the generations, where each person must truly feel at home, where the logic of profit and possessing does not rule, but the logic of free giving and of love. When during the years of old age life becomes frail, it never loses its value or its dignity: every person is willed, is loved by God; every person is important and necessary’.
For the presentation of the international conference and the whole programme click here

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