ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

At the moment, the disease has affected more than 44 million people and this figure is growing exponentially. Therefore, we can assume that Alzheimer's disease-the scourge of the future generation, its study is engaged in the best minds of our time. This problem has not escaped the cinema, which is able to reveal and give the General public the simplest explanation of the essence of the disease and transfer it to the place of a person with Alzheimer's disease, to feel the severity of the disease and the helplessness of such patients, both before themselves and before society. The purpose of the work is to assess the cinematic interest in Alzheimer's disease, to find all possible films and TV series where Alzheimer's disease may appear, to evaluate the signs of the disease in the characters of the pictures by psychoneurological criteria, to analyze the possibility of using cinematography in the field of raising awareness of the population and medical staff about this disease. According to the main keywords, the main films of cinema for 50 years were found with the help of special search services and additional scientific literature. This study allows us to see the peculiarity of the transmission of clinical symptoms of dementia by actors through their roles. According to a number of criteria, 28 films were included in the research list, which allowed to systematize the obtained data and information from the scientific literature. The subjects were evaluated: the first-the clinical symptoms of the disease, the second-the General ability to function in everyday life, the third-behavior. All of the above features were found, but cognitive disorders dominate. Behavioral disorders are also shown well, disorders of motor functions are presented less often. Most films are informative enough to convey the standard course of Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease, dementia, cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative impairment, memory impairment, behavior, senile, elderly, cinema