The next Friday 27 of November will be celebrated, in the assembly hall of the Hotel Royal, (Place Pere Francès, 27), the Informative Day Physical Health and Mental Health, an integral perspective , organized by the Pitiusa Association de Familiares and Personas with Mental Disease and Children with Autismo and other Generalized Upheavals of Desarrollo (APFEM) and Confederation FEAFES, with the collaboration of the biomedical company PFIZER.
The Day will be developed between the 19.00 and 21.00 hours and will count on the presence of the psychiatrist Miguel Ruiz Flowers, the doctor of Primary Attention Harvesting Jose Vine and the paediatrician Joan Garci’a Serra, all of them of the Balearic Institute of Health (IB-Salut), that will speak from different points of view on the importance of the care of the physical health in the people affected by mental disease.
In the day, that will be inaugurated and moderate by the psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Juan Larbán Side, adviser of APFEM, also participates the president of APFEM, Irene Escandell Manchón, and Silvia Martinez Wheel, partner of the organization pitiusa, that will offer their testimony on the importance of the adoption of habits of healthful life in the people diagnosed with a mental disease.
This day starts off the fact that the life expectancy of the people with mental disease it is used excessive respect by problems of his physical health, and not as much by possible consequences related to the mental health. Diabetes, tobacco addiction, or metabolic syndrome is some of the worsened factors of risk in the people with mental disease. To this aggravating ones like the difficulty are united to him other to fulfill the treatment and the lack of coordination in present the sanitary and social system.
APFEM-Ibiza
The Pitiusa Association de Familiares de Personas with Mental Disease and of children with autismo and other upheavals of the development, APFEM, is an Organization without profit spirit that founded on 1995 and it has like mission, to improve the quality of life of the people with mental disease and its relatives to defend his rights and to represent the associative movement.
FEAFES
The Spanish Confederation of Groupings of Relatives and People with Enfermedad Mental (FEAFES) is an organization without spirit of profit and social interest that reunites from 1983 to 219 organizations, and that represent more than 41,000 people with mental disease and its families in all the national territory. More information to go to www.feafes.com.