안녕하세요, Davey 입니다. 오늘 posting 할 TED speech 는 Alzheimer's disease 관련 speech 입니다. 이전에, Alzheimer's disease 를 어떻게 이겨내는지에 대한 TED Talk을 소개시켜 드렸다면, 오늘은, 어떻게 준비하는지에 대한 TED Talk입니다. Tile은, How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's 입니다. 관련 내용 Link는 아래 참조 부탁 드립니다.
https://www.ted.com/talks/alanna_shaikh_how_i_m_preparing_to_get_alzheimer_s
How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
When faced with a parent suffering from Alzheimer's, most of us respond with denial ("It won't happen to me") or extreme efforts at prevention. But global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh sees it differently. She's taking three concrete steps to
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일단, speaker 는 Alzheimer's disease 를 겪고 있는 아버지를 병간호 하고 있으며, 그로 인해, 누구보다도, Alzheimer's disease에 대해서, 잘 알고 있다라고 말을 합니다. 지금까지 연구진에서도 애기하기를 아직까지는 Alzheimer's disease를 치료할 치료제가 아직 안나왔으며, 최대한 병에 걸리지 않게, 운동을 하거나, 영양가 있는 음식을 먹어야 한다고 추천을 합니다. 하지만, 그것도 냉혹하게 말하면, Alzheimer's disease로 부터 우리를 완전히 보호해주지는 못한다고 합니다. 정말 무서운 병이네요. 그리고 Alzheimer's disease 걸린 사람의 수가 점점 많이 늘어 난다고 합니다. speaker은 아버지는 2개국어 대학교 교수 였으며, 취미로는, 체스, 카드놀이 등 머리를 많이 쓰는 활동을 했다고 합니다. 그럼에도 불구하고, Alzheimer's disease가 걸렸으며, 그로인해, 자신한테는, 영원한 영원을 잃은거 같은 느낌을 받았다고 하네요.
저도 저희 아버지나 어머니가 이렇게 치매가 걸렸다고 생각하면, 너무나도 슬플거 같습니다. 한사람이 아프지만, 온 가족들이 너무나도 슬프고, 그로인해, 그 시간 자체가 너무 슬퍼질거 같아서요. 무튼, 지금 아버지를 돌보면서, 훈련을 받고, 그 훈련은, 환자들이 평소에 좋아하는 것을 같이 해주라는 것입니다. 이런 훈련을 통해서, 나중에 내가 Alzheimer's disease에 걸렸을 때, 간병인과 가족들이 좀더 편하게 저를 간호 할 수 있게, 제가 재미있어하는 것을 몸으로 익힐려고 노력을 한다고 하네요. 몸의 균형 잡기 힘들고, 몸을 움직이기 힘드니까, Weight-Bearing 운동도 하면서 하나씩 하나씩 준비한다고 합니다. 약간, 준비성이 뛰어난거 같지만, 약간 슬픈 생각이 드네요! 하지만, 남을 배려하는 마음에서 출발한 생각자체도 너무나도 따뜻한거 같습니다. 마지막으로 끝맺음을 하면서, Alzheimer's disease 걸리기 싫으며, 20년 안쪽으로 빨리 치료제가 나와서, 걸리더라도 치료를 안정적으로 받고 싶다고 합니다. 하지만 걸리더라도, 자신은 그 병에 대해서는 준비가 되어 있다고 합니다. 그럼 설명은 여기까지하고, 아래 script & word 참조 부탁 드립니다. 아래 script는 TED 홈페이지 해당 speech의 Transcript 내용 참조하였습니다.
- How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's script & words
I'd like to talk about my dad. My dad has Alzheimer's disease. He started showing the symptoms about 12 years ago, and he was officially diagnosed in 2005. Now he's really pretty sick. He needs help eating, he needs help getting dressed, he doesn't really know where he is or when it is, and it's been really, really hard. My dad was my hero and my mentor for most of my life, and I've spent the last decade watching him disappear.
My dad's not alone. There's about 35 million people globally living with some kind of dementia, and by 2030 they're expecting that to double to 70 million. That's a lot of people. Dementia scares us. The confused faces and shaky hands of people who have dementia, the big numbers of people who get it, they frighten us. And because of that fear, we tend to do one of two things: We go into denial: "It's not me, it has nothing to do with me, it's never going to happen to me." Or, we decide that we're going to prevent dementia, and it will never happen to us because we're going to do everything right and it won't come and get us. I'm looking for a third way: I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's disease.
Prevention is good, and I'm doing the things that you can do to prevent Alzheimer's. I'm eating right, I'm exercising every day, I'm keeping my mind active, that's what the research says you should do. But the research also shows that there's nothing that will 100 percent protect you. If the monster wants you, the monster's gonna get you. That's what happened with my dad. My dad was a bilingual college professor. His hobbies were chess, bridge and writing op-eds. (Laughter) He got dementia anyway. If the monster wants you, the monster's gonna get you. Especially if you're me, 'cause Alzheimer's tends to run in families. So I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's disease.
bridge 카드놀이
op-ed 논평, 칼럼
run in the family 가족력이 있다
Based on what I've learned from taking care of my father, and researching what it's like to live with dementia, I'm focusing on three things in my preparation: I'm changing what I do for fun, I'm working to build my physical strength, and -- this is the hard one -- I'm trying to become a better person. Let's start with the hobbies. When you get dementia, it gets harder and harder to enjoy yourself. You can't sit and have long talks with your old friends, because you don't know who they are. It's confusing to watch television, and often very frightening. And reading is just about impossible. When you care for someone with dementia, and you get training, they train you to engage them in activities that are familiar, hands-on, open-ended. With my dad, that turned out to be letting him fill out forms. He was a college professor at a state school; he knows what paperwork looks like. He'll sign his name on every line, he'll check all the boxes, he'll put numbers in where he thinks there should be numbers. But it got me thinking, what would my caregivers do with me? I'm my father's daughter. I read, I write, I think about global health a lot. Would they give me academic journals so I could scribble in the margins? Would they give me charts and graphs that I could color? So I've been trying to learn to do things that are hands-on. I've always liked to draw, so I'm doing it more even though I'm really very bad at it. I am learning some basic origami. I can make a really great box. (Laughter) And I'm teaching myself to knit, which so far I can knit a blob.
hands-on 실습의
open-ended 제한이 없는, 끝이 정해지지 않은
scribble ~를 휘갈겨쓰다
margins 가장자리
origami 종이접기
knit 뜨개질하다
blob 뭉치
But, you know, it doesn't matter if I'm actually good at it. What matters is that my hands know how to do it. Because the more things that are familiar, the more things my hands know how to do, the more things that I can be happy and busy doing when my brain's not running the show anymore. They say that people who are engaged in activities are happier, easier for their caregivers to look after, and it may even slow the progress of the disease. That all seems like win to me. I want to be as happy as I can for as long as I can. A lot of people don't know that Alzheimer's actually has physical symptoms, as well as cognitive symptoms. You lose your sense of balance, you get muscle tremors, and that tends to lead people to being less and less mobile. They get scared to walk around. They get scared to move. So I'm doing activities that will build my sense of balance. I'm doing yoga and tai chi to improve my balance, so that when I start to lose it, I'll still be able to be mobile. I'm doing weight-bearing exercise, so that I have the muscle strength so that when I start to wither, I have more time that I can still move around.
tremor 떨림, 겁
less mobile 적게 이동할 수 있는
weight-bearing 체중부하
wither 시들다, 위축되다, 활기를 잃다
Finally, the third thing. I'm trying to become a better person. My dad was kind and loving before he had Alzheimer's, and he's kind and loving now. I've seen him lose his intellect, his sense of humor, his language skills, but I've also seen this: He loves me, he loves my sons, he loves my brother and my mom and his caregivers. And that love makes us want to be around him, even now. even when it's so hard. When you take away everything that he ever learned in this world, his naked heart still shines. I was never as kind as my dad, and I was never as loving. And what I need now is to learn to be like that. I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.
strip 벗기다
I don't want to get Alzheimer's disease. What I want is a cure in the next 20 years, soon enough to protect me. But if it comes for me, I'm going to be ready. Thank you.
정말 Alzheimer's disease 무섭긴 한가 보네요.. 잠을 줄이면 더 심해진다고 하는데.. 요즘 해야 할일이 많아서, 잠을 줄여야하는 상황에, 이런 내용을 읽으면 어떻게 해야할지도 좀 답답해집니다. 그래도, 건강할 때 잘 관리해야 되겠죠. 그리고, 할 수 있을 때 더 최선을 다해야 된다라고 생각합니다. 두마리의 토끼 잡을 수 있도록 잘 Managing 하도록 하겠습니다. 여러분도 잘 관리하시길 바라겠습니다.
[저작권이나, 권리를 침해한 사항이 있으면 언제든지 Comment 부탁 드립니다. 그리고, 기재되는 내용은 개인적으로 습득한 내용이므로, 혹 오류가 발생할 수 있을 가능성이 있으므로, 기재된 내용은 참조용으로만 봐주시길 바랍니다. 게시물에, 오류가 있을때도, Comment 달아 주시면, 검증 결과를 통해, 수정하도록 하겠습니다.]
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