English EMBRACE LIFE is a website featuring short video films about life with a chronic disease. Ordinary men and women talk about living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease or dementia. Hanging in there started as part of the Capital Region Chronic Diseases Programme, and was developed in close cooperation with patient associations and members of the public. In 2012 the Capital Region decided to deliver EMBRACE LIFE as a permanent service for Capital Region residents, and new video films and networks will be developed in the years to come. Sideindhold An Outing with the Alzheimer's Association Dementia sufferers benefit from new impressions too. They may have forgotten all about it the next day but in the moment, they really enjoy it. Even if you have severe dementia, the experience can be fun. We accompany the Copenhagen Alzheimer Association on an outing to Stevns. 18. august 2016 / 13:32 Are you well enough to observe Ramadan? 18. august 2016 / 13:32 COPD - at it's worst Claus Carlsen and Ulla Berger Jensen both have COPD. They have both been through many crises when the disease has flared up. Quite a few COPD sufferers find themselves in hospital when their condition suddenly deteriorates. But extra oxygen, medication and breathing drills often help. 18. august 2016 / 13:32 COPD - friends and relatives COPD is an illness that can severely limit your social life. Lots of sufferers cannot tolerate tobacco smoke and have to decline invitations to occasions where there may be smokers. How do you explain this to friends and relatives? How do you explain that you cannot cope with physical activity either? 18. august 2016 / 13:32 COPD - good advice How do you get on with life when you have COPD to cope with? Does breathlessness at the slightest physical activity mean that it is all over? Not at all! A group of COPD sufferers tells you how they go about making life worth living even with a serious lung disease. 18. august 2016 / 13:32 COPD and new habits When you get COPD you have to make quite a few changes to your life. These may include getting more exercise, changing your eating habits, and giving up smoking if you are a smoker. But even more drastic changes may become necessary. This video shows how other sufferers have coped with the changes forced on them by COPD. 18. august 2016 / 13:32 COPD I ought to do more For COPD sufferers exercise and staying active are vital, even though breathing difficulties can be a major hindrance. In this film COPD sufferers describe the feeling that they ought to do more as regards their illness. But they also look on the bright side and how they feel when they take positive action. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 COPD patients at work How do you cope with all the sick leave? How do you discuss your illness with your fellow employees? Do COPD sufferers have special needs? Will your colleagues regards you as “difficult”? In this video COPD sufferers talk about life at work with a chronic illness. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 COPD: my own fault? “Well, you shouldn’t have been such a heavy smoker, should you?” People are quick to point the finger. In this video COPD sufferers describe how they feel and how they respond when people say their illness is their own fault. We also hear from a patient who has COPD but never smoked a cigarette in her life. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Dementia - Everyday Life as Relatives to a Dementia Sufferer When a relative becomes a carer.It is hard when a loved one begins to behave differently and when you suddenly have to change from being a spouse, daughter or son to being a carer. The relatives of dementia sufferers talk about this difficult change in roles. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Dementia - Forbidden feelings When your conscience pricks you.Should you feel guilty when your demented loved one is particularly irritating? Is it all right to feel relieved when the latter dies? Relatives talk about the forbidden feelings. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Dementia - Happy Moments The little things -- and some good adviceAccept the situation and accentuate the good moments, because there may well be quite a few of those too. In this film relatives provide good advice and tell us about those good moments. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Dementia - How we found out Dementia can be hard to spot early on.It may take a while before you realize that your loved one is developing dementia. It often creeps up on you, and only afterwards can you recognize the small signs your loved one was displaying. Spouses and children tell us how they discovered the dementia. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Dementia - Where can I turn for support? See how other people have recovered their energy.Everyday life with a dementia sufferer can pose huge challenges. Where can you find the necessary energy, and how do you cope without going down with your ship? Here are a few ideas for you. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Diabetes - a new life When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness changing the way you live can be a challenge. But that is often what it takes to get your illness under control. In this video type 2 diabetics describe what they do in order to manage their illness. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Diabetes - Friends and relatives How does having type 2 diabetes affect your relations with friends and relatives? What does your family say? And your friends? Are their social activities you are no longer able to take part in because of your disease? We hear from people who have the disease. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Diabetes - good advice When you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you may feel bewildered and confused. In this video people who have had the disease for some time tell you what you can do in order to learn to live with type 2 diabetes. 18. august 2016 / 13:33 Diabetes - I ought to do more It is easy to reproach yourself if you are told you have a chronic disease such as type 2 diabetes. Have you made the wrong choices in terms of diet and exercise? This feeling is exacerbated by the difficulty involved in changing your approach. In this film type 2 diabetics describe how they tackle their feelings of inadequacy, including the occasions when they slacken the reins. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Diabetes - the discovery Type 2 diabetes often starts unnoticed. It is often discovered by coincidence But the sooner you start treating it, the greater the opportunities for avoiding complications. A group of diabetics describes how they discovered they had type 2 diabetes. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Diabetes and complications Type 2 diabetes can lead to a number of complications which may result in disability or even death. By changing the way you live you can do a great deal to prevent these complications. In this video a group of diabetics talk about their fear of complications and what they are doing to avoid them. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Diabetes and complications: The first warning sign Diabetes is the first warning to take care if you don’t want to live out your days walking with a white stick, confined to a wheelchair or in dialysis Many diabetics worry about the complications that may arise if they don’t take their disease seriously. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Diabetes and work Does type 2 diabetes affect your working life? Do you need to tell anyone at work at all? If so, what do you tell your boss and your fellow employees? Or your staff if you are the boss? In this video diabetes patients describe how they cope. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Diabetes: my own fault? Type 2 diabetics sometimes feel that other people look down on them for having a lifestyle disease. “It’s your own fault because you didn’t live a healthy life”. In this video a group of diabetics describe how the people around them have reacted and what it feels like. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Hans Henrik in the kitchen 54-year-old actor Hans Henrik Bærentsen has had type 2 diabetes for 20 years. Now morbidly obese and with a number of complications he needs to lose weight. So he is following a special dietary system known in Danish as “Spis for Livet”. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Hayrettin had a heart attack at the age of 37 I can’t just lie around on the sofa 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Heart Disease - Advice for other people You can make an effort tooA heart disease or condition does not mean that life is over. Many patients return to more or less normal life again, and you can do much of the work yourself. Hear good advice from people who have been through it. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Heart Disease - From Healthy to Ill Heart patients reveal how they felt when they were told of their serious conditionIt is a huge upheaval from taking a vitamin tablet a day to suddenly having to swallow 15 or 15 a day, as one of the people in this video tells us. See how a number of heart patients experienced the trauma of suddenly having to live with a serious illness. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Heart Disease - How relatives react When your nearest and dearest worry too muchIs it possible for your nearest and dearest to worry so much about you when you have a serious heart condition that it really becomes a burden? That is the subject of this video. 18. august 2016 / 13:34 Heart Disease - Live as normally as you can Ole Dupont is 51 and he has had four thromboses"After the first I was so sorry for myself that I sat down on a chair and stayed there for 18 months" says 51-year-old Ole Dupont. Since 2005 he has had four thromboses in his heart and brain. Today he has got his job and his high spirits back. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 Heart Disease - Medicine Your vital medicine is not always without its problemsMany heart patients have to take large amounts of drugs. It can be hard to keep track, and sometimes the drugs have side-effects. See how other heart patients tackle these challenges 18. august 2016 / 13:35 Heart Disease - The countryside distracts me 77-year-old Kinna Henriksen doesn't think about her heart condition much.She has had a stent inserted to help her struggling heart. She lives on a smallholding and has flocks of sheep to tend in the lovely surroundings. "Nature gives me a kick. It really recharges my batteries", she says. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 Heart Disease - The fear of dying Life takes on new meaningThinking about death is only natural when you have a serious heart condition, but for the people we meet in this film, their minds are full of other things that fear of dying. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 How I became a Heart Patient Heart disease can manifest itself in many ways.66-year-old Annie, 64-year-old John and two Ole's aged 51 and 65 respectively reveal how they discovered they had heart disease. For some of them it came out of nowhere, whereas for the others the deterioration was gradual. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 How I got COPD Many sufferers experience repeated bouts of respiratory diseases before they are finally diagnosed with COPD. But it often comes as a shock to be told that you have an illness that can cause serious respiratory difficulties. In this video patients describe how their illness started. But they also reveal how they got over the shock. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 I didn't know it was a Thrombosis Ulla Bjerg is 63 and she had a coronary thrombosisOne night Ulla Bjerg, 63, woke up with back-ache. The pain was dreadful but it never occurred to her that it could be her heart. It turned out to be a thrombosis. Although she has completely recovered, it seriously affected her ability to work. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 It's good to talk about your disease 18. august 2016 / 13:35 John and diabetes John is 70 and has type 2 diabetes. The diagnosis took him by surprise: he didn’t think he was in a risk group. He has now changed his eating habits and growing his own vegetables has become a favourite pastime. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 Keep Your Heart Fit Ole Basbøll is 73 and has been given a pacemakerKeeping fit is vital if you have a heart condition73-year-old Ole Basbøll works out every day, and he says you don't need a gym full of weights. Steeping up and down a single stair a few times, or bicep curls using hand weights, will do the trick. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 Letting go when your loved one is demented The difficult decision: nursing home or not?The toughest decision for the family of a dementia sufferer is when a nursing home appears to be the only option. In this video relatives tell us how they reached this difficult decision. 18. august 2016 / 13:35 Lis and COPD Lis Eickhardt-Sørensen, a 61-year-old school teacher, has had COPD for two years. She refuses to let the disease get her down, and tries to live as normally as she can, even though there are a few limitations. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Living with COPD Erik Fænøe is 80. He was diagnosed with COPD in 2007. In this video he describes living with his illness and what he does to get the exercise he needs. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Living with diabetes “My food is my medicine” 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Making it taste of culture - A visit to a prevention centre 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Marianne never smoked Marianne Lind is 54 years old. She is a systems developer. A year ago she was told she had COPD, often referred to as “smoker’s lungs”. She just couldn’t understand it. After all, she has never smoked a cigarette in her life. “I hate the name “smoker’s lings” because it is not my fault I got COPD”, she says. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 My Husband has Dementia Svend Rasmussen is 69 and suffers from frontal lobe dementia.69-year-old Britt Rasmussen, Bagsværd Denmark, describes everyday life with a demented spouse. Her husband, Svend Rasmussen, has been suffering from frontal lobe dementia for three years. He still lives in the family home, which is really quite challenging, Britt Rasmussen admits. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 My Mum has Dementia A film about Merete and her mother, who now lives at a nursing home."You don't have to put them into care right away. But don't leave it too long, either", says Merete Dehnfeld. In the end life at home got too much for her demented mother to manage. She found real peace when she went into a home where there was no pressure on her to do anything. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Nursing Homes: The difficult decision A psychologist provides advice on the move to a nursing homeThe decision to put your demented spouse or mother into a nursing home can be incredibly painful. So many people put it off until it is inevitable.In this video psychologist Henrik Brogaard tells us how to ensure that the move is as beneficial as possible for the patient and his or her relatives alike. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Ole and diabetes Ole Vistrup is 52 and runs his own business. When he was told he had type 2 diabetes thirteen years ago he thought it was the end of the world: he loves good food and many other pleasures in life. Today he has learned how to live with his diabetes, and he isn’t afraid of occasionally letting go, especially when he goes to sea with his pals on their old sailing ship. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 Rehabilitation with COPD If you have COPD there is therapy available from your municipality or hospital. Ensuring the right therapy is important if you are to get the most out of it. In this video Birger jensen, who has tried both options, talks about the benefits. 18. august 2016 / 13:36 The Discovery - I thought my life was over 18. august 2016 / 13:36 The Place - a Refuge for Younger Dementia Sufferers Talking gobbledygook is quite all right.It can be hard to keep up with what the others are talking about when you have dementia. But at the day centre and residential unit in Frederiksberg Denmark, things feel much easier. 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An Outing with the Alzheimer's Association Dementia sufferers benefit from new impressions too. They may have forgotten all about it the next day but in the moment, they really enjoy it. Even if you have severe dementia, the experience can be fun. We accompany the Copenhagen Alzheimer Association on an outing to Stevns. 18. august 2016 / 13:32
COPD - at it's worst Claus Carlsen and Ulla Berger Jensen both have COPD. They have both been through many crises when the disease has flared up. Quite a few COPD sufferers find themselves in hospital when their condition suddenly deteriorates. But extra oxygen, medication and breathing drills often help. 18. august 2016 / 13:32
COPD - friends and relatives COPD is an illness that can severely limit your social life. Lots of sufferers cannot tolerate tobacco smoke and have to decline invitations to occasions where there may be smokers. How do you explain this to friends and relatives? How do you explain that you cannot cope with physical activity either? 18. august 2016 / 13:32
COPD - good advice How do you get on with life when you have COPD to cope with? Does breathlessness at the slightest physical activity mean that it is all over? Not at all! A group of COPD sufferers tells you how they go about making life worth living even with a serious lung disease. 18. august 2016 / 13:32
COPD and new habits When you get COPD you have to make quite a few changes to your life. These may include getting more exercise, changing your eating habits, and giving up smoking if you are a smoker. But even more drastic changes may become necessary. This video shows how other sufferers have coped with the changes forced on them by COPD. 18. august 2016 / 13:32
COPD I ought to do more For COPD sufferers exercise and staying active are vital, even though breathing difficulties can be a major hindrance. In this film COPD sufferers describe the feeling that they ought to do more as regards their illness. But they also look on the bright side and how they feel when they take positive action. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
COPD patients at work How do you cope with all the sick leave? How do you discuss your illness with your fellow employees? Do COPD sufferers have special needs? Will your colleagues regards you as “difficult”? In this video COPD sufferers talk about life at work with a chronic illness. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
COPD: my own fault? “Well, you shouldn’t have been such a heavy smoker, should you?” People are quick to point the finger. In this video COPD sufferers describe how they feel and how they respond when people say their illness is their own fault. We also hear from a patient who has COPD but never smoked a cigarette in her life. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Dementia - Everyday Life as Relatives to a Dementia Sufferer When a relative becomes a carer.It is hard when a loved one begins to behave differently and when you suddenly have to change from being a spouse, daughter or son to being a carer. The relatives of dementia sufferers talk about this difficult change in roles. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Dementia - Forbidden feelings When your conscience pricks you.Should you feel guilty when your demented loved one is particularly irritating? Is it all right to feel relieved when the latter dies? Relatives talk about the forbidden feelings. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Dementia - Happy Moments The little things -- and some good adviceAccept the situation and accentuate the good moments, because there may well be quite a few of those too. In this film relatives provide good advice and tell us about those good moments. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Dementia - How we found out Dementia can be hard to spot early on.It may take a while before you realize that your loved one is developing dementia. It often creeps up on you, and only afterwards can you recognize the small signs your loved one was displaying. Spouses and children tell us how they discovered the dementia. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Dementia - Where can I turn for support? See how other people have recovered their energy.Everyday life with a dementia sufferer can pose huge challenges. Where can you find the necessary energy, and how do you cope without going down with your ship? Here are a few ideas for you. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Diabetes - a new life When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness changing the way you live can be a challenge. But that is often what it takes to get your illness under control. In this video type 2 diabetics describe what they do in order to manage their illness. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Diabetes - Friends and relatives How does having type 2 diabetes affect your relations with friends and relatives? What does your family say? And your friends? Are their social activities you are no longer able to take part in because of your disease? We hear from people who have the disease. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Diabetes - good advice When you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you may feel bewildered and confused. In this video people who have had the disease for some time tell you what you can do in order to learn to live with type 2 diabetes. 18. august 2016 / 13:33
Diabetes - I ought to do more It is easy to reproach yourself if you are told you have a chronic disease such as type 2 diabetes. Have you made the wrong choices in terms of diet and exercise? This feeling is exacerbated by the difficulty involved in changing your approach. In this film type 2 diabetics describe how they tackle their feelings of inadequacy, including the occasions when they slacken the reins. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Diabetes - the discovery Type 2 diabetes often starts unnoticed. It is often discovered by coincidence But the sooner you start treating it, the greater the opportunities for avoiding complications. A group of diabetics describes how they discovered they had type 2 diabetes. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Diabetes and complications Type 2 diabetes can lead to a number of complications which may result in disability or even death. By changing the way you live you can do a great deal to prevent these complications. In this video a group of diabetics talk about their fear of complications and what they are doing to avoid them. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Diabetes and complications: The first warning sign Diabetes is the first warning to take care if you don’t want to live out your days walking with a white stick, confined to a wheelchair or in dialysis Many diabetics worry about the complications that may arise if they don’t take their disease seriously. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Diabetes and work Does type 2 diabetes affect your working life? Do you need to tell anyone at work at all? If so, what do you tell your boss and your fellow employees? Or your staff if you are the boss? In this video diabetes patients describe how they cope. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Diabetes: my own fault? Type 2 diabetics sometimes feel that other people look down on them for having a lifestyle disease. “It’s your own fault because you didn’t live a healthy life”. In this video a group of diabetics describe how the people around them have reacted and what it feels like. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Hans Henrik in the kitchen 54-year-old actor Hans Henrik Bærentsen has had type 2 diabetes for 20 years. Now morbidly obese and with a number of complications he needs to lose weight. So he is following a special dietary system known in Danish as “Spis for Livet”. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Hayrettin had a heart attack at the age of 37 I can’t just lie around on the sofa 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Heart Disease - Advice for other people You can make an effort tooA heart disease or condition does not mean that life is over. Many patients return to more or less normal life again, and you can do much of the work yourself. Hear good advice from people who have been through it. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Heart Disease - From Healthy to Ill Heart patients reveal how they felt when they were told of their serious conditionIt is a huge upheaval from taking a vitamin tablet a day to suddenly having to swallow 15 or 15 a day, as one of the people in this video tells us. See how a number of heart patients experienced the trauma of suddenly having to live with a serious illness. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Heart Disease - How relatives react When your nearest and dearest worry too muchIs it possible for your nearest and dearest to worry so much about you when you have a serious heart condition that it really becomes a burden? That is the subject of this video. 18. august 2016 / 13:34
Heart Disease - Live as normally as you can Ole Dupont is 51 and he has had four thromboses"After the first I was so sorry for myself that I sat down on a chair and stayed there for 18 months" says 51-year-old Ole Dupont. Since 2005 he has had four thromboses in his heart and brain. Today he has got his job and his high spirits back. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
Heart Disease - Medicine Your vital medicine is not always without its problemsMany heart patients have to take large amounts of drugs. It can be hard to keep track, and sometimes the drugs have side-effects. See how other heart patients tackle these challenges 18. august 2016 / 13:35
Heart Disease - The countryside distracts me 77-year-old Kinna Henriksen doesn't think about her heart condition much.She has had a stent inserted to help her struggling heart. She lives on a smallholding and has flocks of sheep to tend in the lovely surroundings. "Nature gives me a kick. It really recharges my batteries", she says. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
Heart Disease - The fear of dying Life takes on new meaningThinking about death is only natural when you have a serious heart condition, but for the people we meet in this film, their minds are full of other things that fear of dying. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
How I became a Heart Patient Heart disease can manifest itself in many ways.66-year-old Annie, 64-year-old John and two Ole's aged 51 and 65 respectively reveal how they discovered they had heart disease. For some of them it came out of nowhere, whereas for the others the deterioration was gradual. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
How I got COPD Many sufferers experience repeated bouts of respiratory diseases before they are finally diagnosed with COPD. But it often comes as a shock to be told that you have an illness that can cause serious respiratory difficulties. In this video patients describe how their illness started. But they also reveal how they got over the shock. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
I didn't know it was a Thrombosis Ulla Bjerg is 63 and she had a coronary thrombosisOne night Ulla Bjerg, 63, woke up with back-ache. The pain was dreadful but it never occurred to her that it could be her heart. It turned out to be a thrombosis. Although she has completely recovered, it seriously affected her ability to work. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
John and diabetes John is 70 and has type 2 diabetes. The diagnosis took him by surprise: he didn’t think he was in a risk group. He has now changed his eating habits and growing his own vegetables has become a favourite pastime. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
Keep Your Heart Fit Ole Basbøll is 73 and has been given a pacemakerKeeping fit is vital if you have a heart condition73-year-old Ole Basbøll works out every day, and he says you don't need a gym full of weights. Steeping up and down a single stair a few times, or bicep curls using hand weights, will do the trick. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
Letting go when your loved one is demented The difficult decision: nursing home or not?The toughest decision for the family of a dementia sufferer is when a nursing home appears to be the only option. In this video relatives tell us how they reached this difficult decision. 18. august 2016 / 13:35
Lis and COPD Lis Eickhardt-Sørensen, a 61-year-old school teacher, has had COPD for two years. She refuses to let the disease get her down, and tries to live as normally as she can, even though there are a few limitations. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
Living with COPD Erik Fænøe is 80. He was diagnosed with COPD in 2007. In this video he describes living with his illness and what he does to get the exercise he needs. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
Marianne never smoked Marianne Lind is 54 years old. She is a systems developer. A year ago she was told she had COPD, often referred to as “smoker’s lungs”. She just couldn’t understand it. After all, she has never smoked a cigarette in her life. “I hate the name “smoker’s lings” because it is not my fault I got COPD”, she says. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
My Husband has Dementia Svend Rasmussen is 69 and suffers from frontal lobe dementia.69-year-old Britt Rasmussen, Bagsværd Denmark, describes everyday life with a demented spouse. Her husband, Svend Rasmussen, has been suffering from frontal lobe dementia for three years. He still lives in the family home, which is really quite challenging, Britt Rasmussen admits. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
My Mum has Dementia A film about Merete and her mother, who now lives at a nursing home."You don't have to put them into care right away. But don't leave it too long, either", says Merete Dehnfeld. In the end life at home got too much for her demented mother to manage. She found real peace when she went into a home where there was no pressure on her to do anything. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
Nursing Homes: The difficult decision A psychologist provides advice on the move to a nursing homeThe decision to put your demented spouse or mother into a nursing home can be incredibly painful. So many people put it off until it is inevitable.In this video psychologist Henrik Brogaard tells us how to ensure that the move is as beneficial as possible for the patient and his or her relatives alike. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
Ole and diabetes Ole Vistrup is 52 and runs his own business. When he was told he had type 2 diabetes thirteen years ago he thought it was the end of the world: he loves good food and many other pleasures in life. Today he has learned how to live with his diabetes, and he isn’t afraid of occasionally letting go, especially when he goes to sea with his pals on their old sailing ship. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
Rehabilitation with COPD If you have COPD there is therapy available from your municipality or hospital. Ensuring the right therapy is important if you are to get the most out of it. In this video Birger jensen, who has tried both options, talks about the benefits. 18. august 2016 / 13:36
The Place - a Refuge for Younger Dementia Sufferers Talking gobbledygook is quite all right.It can be hard to keep up with what the others are talking about when you have dementia. But at the day centre and residential unit in Frederiksberg Denmark, things feel much easier. "After all, we have all got the same problem", one user says. "The Place" is a sanctuary younger sufferers in particular enjoy visiting. 18. august 2016 / 13:37