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The Parkinson Patient At Home
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More than ninety per cent of all patients with Parkinson's disease live at home with their families. The purpose of this report is to help the patient and family to achieve better adjustments to home living. Our goal is to make each patient as comfortable and contented as pos- sible in spite of t ....
Middle of essay ....ng stroke, or something worse.
THE PREVENTION OF FALLS IN THE HOME:
Since the disorder involves awkwardness and slowness of muscle movements, periodic freezing of the legs, a ten- dency for the body to stumble forward or backward, and an uncertainty in getting about, the home should be ar- ranged to minimize falls. Older patients have an added hazard from failing since their bones have lost some of the strengthening calcium, (osteoporosis) so that if they do slip to the floor, they could .... |
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