Page 3013 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 September 1993
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Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act - Notice of commencement (1 September 1993) of sections 3, 5, 6, 30, 31 and 32 and paragraphs 8(a) and (b) (S177, dated 1 September 1993).
Nurses Act - Determination of fees - No. 112 of 1993 (S174, dated 30 August 1993).
Optometrists Act - Determination of fees - No. 113 of 1993 (S174, dated 30 August 1993).
Pharmacy Act - Determination of fees - No. 116 of 1993 (S174, dated 30 August 1993).
Physiotherapists Registration Act - Physiotherapists Registration Regulations (Amendment) - No. 33 of 1993 (S175, dated 30 August 1993).
Public Place Names Act - Determination No. 119 of 1993 (S176, dated 31 August 1993).
Supreme Court Act - Supreme Court Rules (Amendment) - No. 35 of 1993 (S178, dated 7 September 1993).
Traffic (Amendment) Act - Notice of commencement (1 September 1993) of remaining provisions (S177, dated 1 September 1993).
Veterinary Surgeons Registration Act - Determination of fees - No. 115 of 1993 (S174, dated 30 August 1993).
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AWARENESS WEEK
Ministerial Statement
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport), by leave: I would like to acknowledge an event held last week, from 5 to 12 September, National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Week, and ask members of the Assembly to support the establishment of an ACT Alzheimer's Association. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of severe progressive loss of recent memory and thinking ability of previously well, middle-aged and older persons. I stress that it is a disease of the brain and not part of normal ageing. The disease affects more women than men, occurs in every country, and is being seen increasingly as people live longer and survive diseases which in the past shortened life spans.
Alzheimer's disease falls within the syndrome known as dementia. The World Health Organisation classification of dementia states:
A syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, in which there is impairment of multiple functions, including memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language and judgment.
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