The Prevalence Of Parkinson 's Disease

By the time someone shows signs and symptoms of Parkinson 's, Dopamine production in the brain has been reduced by 60 to 80% and is fairly advanced. This results in the most recognizable sign of Parkinson 's disease, the resting tremor of the hand or hands. During deliberate movement, the resting tremor goes away, at first. At rest, the tremor will become exacerbated,

Exercises and physical activity have been associated with numerous health benefits including reducing incidences of falls and injuries among the elderly and the geriatric population. Appropriately exercise programs and cardiovascular fitness in older people improve strength and balance. The interventions included strengthening, endurance, balance, flexibility exercises, Tai Chi, stand up/step down procedure and walking exercises. In the first research, the findings were that program targeting balance, leg strength, and freezing gait were only effective in people with milder illnesses, as opposed to more serious disorders like Parkinson’s disease. The study was done for a period of 2 years. In the second research, the findings showed that a multi-component enhanced physical performance of the community indwelling adults but did not translate to psychological outcomes or reduced rates of falling.

“Previous studies showed a high incidence of recurrent falls in people with PD, ranging from 18% to 65% in a 1-year period” (Almeida et al., 2016, p. 1075). Falls are a risk for many people with Parkinson’s disease. People who have Parksinson’s disease and have issues with gait control have frequent falls. Nurses help care for individuals who have Parkinson’s when they enter the care facility. Exercising on a regular basis can help decrease the amount of falls with patients who have Parkinson’s disease. This paper will be located in a long term care facility and discuss how decreasing falls can improve quality of life in patients who have Parkinson’s disease.

Many may not know Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the world. This disease is most seen in the elderly starting at 62 years of age although, younger individuals can still have the disease it isn’t common. Parkinson’s make it difficult for its victims to carry out everyday activities that might have once been easy for them. As the disease progresses it makes it hard for the patient to do things like walk, stand, swallow and speak. A great deal of people don’t realize how helpful therapy can be when dealing with such disease!

When people hear the words Parkinson’s disease they think, “Isn’t that what Michael J. Fox has?” For those who are asking, “Who is Michael J. Fox?” He was the character Marty McFly in the “Back to the Future” movie and played on many TV shows. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he set up an organization to research Parkinsonism. What the Michael J. Fox Foundation found was that 40 percent of the people living with Parkinson’s disease experience dystonia as an early symptom or a complication of treatment. This is the only blurb you see on the website about dystonia. In fact, it is so much like the other disorders out there that many people have never heard of it. The purpose of this paper is to inform

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They have trouble eating and writing because of cramping in their hands. Bradykinesia is slowness of voluntary movement. It gets harder for them to initiate movement and to complete movement. This can cause expressionless “mask-like” appearance because this can affect their facial muscles. Postural instability makes it difficult for the individual to maintain balance in their posture. This can cause them to trip and fall. Parkinsonian gait is a more aggressive symptom, this causes the individual to walk with a distinctive shuffle in a stooping position. Most people lose the ability to swing their arms while walking to keep their balance, which can cause them to fall or stumble.

Parkinson’s is a disease that affects the nervous system, causing problems with movement of the body. There is an estimate that says that there is seven to ten million people in world living with this particular disease. The possibility of someone receiving Parkinson’s disease increases with age, according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation there is an estimate that four percent of people under the age of fifty are diagnosed with the disease (Parkinson’s Disease Foundation).

New discoveries on the treatment of Parkinson’s disease show that dopamine neurons can treat Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a disorder of the nervous system, which is a progressive disease. Parkinson’s disease is marked by tremors, muscular stiffness. It mainly affects people who are either elderly or middle aged. Although Parkinson’s disease cannot be cure lab grown dopamine can assist in being able to manage the disease in an enhanced way. Although Parkinson’s disease is not curable but can be treatable it still needs more work in order to make a cure in the future. Dopamine helps regulate movement and when there is a deficiency in dopamine that results in Parkinson’s disease.

The most frequent neurodegenerative movement disorder today is Parkinson Disease (Barth et al., 2011), with a prevalence which increases with age – from 0.01% of people in the age group 40 to 44 years, increasing steadily to approximately 1% at age 65 and 22% at age 85 or over. Due to an aging society, increasing industrialization and environmental factors, the number of patients will grow rapidly in the forthcoming decades.

Family members, especially those aiding Parkinson’s disease patients, are emotionally and physically affected by the disease as well (it’s not just the PD patients). Both the patient and the people supporting them often suffer with depression, fatigue, or other stress related illnesses. What family members must understand is that taking care of a Parkinson’s disease patient can vary day to day. There will be times when patients may function almost normally and then other times when they are very dependent. Parkinson’s disease is unpredictable and presents new challenges for caregivers on a daily basis. Taking care of a loved one that is ill is just the half of the situation as caretakers also have to take care of their self and their families.

Falls are a risk for many people with Parkinson’s disease. “Previous studies showed a high incidence of recurrent falls in people with PD, ranging from 18% to 65% in a 1-year period” (Almeida et al., 2016, p. 1075). Individuals who have Parkinson’s disease and have issues with gait control have frequent falls. Nurses help care for persons who have Parkinson’s when they enter the care facility. Exercising on a

There have been times during my life when my motivation has blossomed from different emotions. The day after Mother’s 65th birthday, love and fear intertwined into a knot inseparably made from a single thread. For on that day, Mother received the diagnosis of having Parkinson’s disease, at the time I did not comprehend the gravity of what that diagnosis actually meant. My desire to learn more about Parkinson’s disease initially stemmed from fear of what my mother would endure as the disease progressed, and love, motivated my desire to improve the quality of her life by any measure possible. Fortunately, the knowledge I gained aided my family in understanding and caring for Mother with great compassion. Sadly, over the following years, this

Parkinson’s Disease is a disease that is hard to understand and once diagnosed people find themselves scared about what will happen in their future. So it may be good to learn a bit about the history of Parkinson’s. It is unknown when Parkinson’s was really discovered but it is known that medical scientists have been treating this disease for a thousand years at least.

The journal article, The impact of Parkinson’s disease on vocal-prosodic communication from the perspective of the listeners, written by Marc D. Pell, Henry S. Cheang, and Carol L. Leonard in 2005, discusses the impact of dysprosody on people with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, (PD) from the viewpoint of the listeners. Both the experimental and control groups were recorded when completing speech tasks. The aim of this article was to study how listeners perceive the speech of persons with PD, and if they are able to differentiate the emotions of the speakers with Parkinson’s disease compared to the healthy adult speakers.