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 ....
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.... hundred pa- tients who were asked if they felt they should he told by their doctor when he was sure of the diagnosis replied "Yes".
It is quite obvious that you cannot learn to adapt and handle all the problems connected with an illness such as this unless you know what it is. It may sometimes be diffi- cult to decide what to tell the neighbors and visitors who come regularly to the house as well as servants and others around the patient and family. It is, nevertheless, our opinion that you ....
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