Can hospital admissions predict mortality in Parkinson’s?
Objective: Profile patients with Parkinson's who experience inpatient care. Assess the impact of admissions to hospital and evaluate readmissions and mortality rates. Background: People with…Assessment and connection to care: The vital role of the social worker in an interdisciplinary home visit program for advanced Parkinson’s disease patients
Objective: 1) To describe the role of social workers in managing the care coordination of homebound patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD); 2) to demonstrate…Cellular senescence induced by paraquat drives neuropathology associated with Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To understand the role of cellular senescence in brain aging and neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease models. Background: Although cellular senescence has been causally linked…Medication errors: The role of the nurse in an interdisciplinary home visit program for advanced Parkinson’s disease patients
Objective: To examine the number and types of medication errors detected by a registered nurse during interdisciplinary home visits for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease…Pathophysiological mechanisms of bone mass loss for osteoporosis prevalence in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: Quantify the impact of osteoporosis in Parkinson's disease to know factors that caused bone loss. Background: Parkinson´s disease (PD) and osteoporosis are two conditions…Dyadic decision making & decisional satisfaction in advanced Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To assess (1) the types of healthcare and life preferences decisions the family dyad is making in advanced stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) and…Effects of age and gender on brainstem MR-planimetry
Objective: To evaluate age- and gender effects on brainstem MR-planimetric measures. (1,2). Background: Brainstem planimetry has been successfully applied to differentiate Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)…A study to assess the quality of life and strain in caregivers of people with Parkinson’s disease in India
Objective: This paper investigates the quality of life and strain of caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease. Background: Support of caregivers often enables the patients…In vivo evaluation of tau pathologies in patient with progressive supranuclear palsy and healthy subjects with [11C]PBB3-PET
Objective: This study was aimed at evaluating pathological tau accumulations in the brains of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and young and old healthy…Feasibility and preliminary outcomes of an interdisciplinary home visit program for patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease
Objective: 1) To demonstrate the feasibility of an interdisciplinary home visit program (HVP) for advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) providing expert, interdisciplinary care directly to homebound…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.