Alzheimer's disease with a criminal outcome
A pensioner burned his sick wife together with a dacha near Moscow
A man burned his wife together with a country house. He was pushed to this act by deep depression – the woman was bedridden and suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
As the press service of the Investigative Committee reports today, the emergency occurred on June 16. The body of a woman with multiple burns was found in a burnt-out garden house of a country village. According to this fact, the investigative department for the city of Noginsk of the GSU of the IC of Russia in the Moscow region opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder").
It was previously established that her 64-year-old husband was at the dacha with his seriously ill wife. Last Sunday evening, he approached his wife's bed, scattered newspapers around her, and then set them on fire. "After waiting until the fire engulfed the premises of the house, he went outside, despite the screams of his wife, who is in a helpless state and deprived of the opportunity for self–preservation," the press service of the UK says.
Currently, the issue of choosing a preventive measure against a pensioner is being resolved. Since he cannot really explain the motives of his act, the investigators appointed a psychological and psychiatric examination.
The man explained that he burned his wife because he "had something in his head." The woman had Alzheimer's disease, and this caused her husband to develop severe depression, the press service said.
Alzheimer's disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that leads to a complete loss of personality. The average life expectancy of a patient after diagnosis is about seven years, less than three percent of patients live more than fourteen years. Alzheimer's patients become bedridden and completely dependent on others at the last stage of the disease.
Caring for such a person is usually taken over by his close relative, and this is an extremely heavy burden that affects the social, psychological, economic and other aspects of family life. Among those caring for such a patient, there is a high level of somatic diseases and mental disorders. It is especially difficult for those who live under the same roof with a ward, since an Alzheimer's patient not only loses his memory, but also often falls into depression, behaves inappropriately, hallucinates, suffers from sleep disorders and is unable to move normally. At the same time, the cost of care is high. For example, in the USA, direct and indirect costs of patient care average from $18,000 to $77,500 per year (Wikipedia data).
In developed countries, special attention is paid to the psychological health of people caring for patients.
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