Parkinson’s disease and its treatment give rise to a variety of symptoms. The assorted symptoms including, both motor and non-motor worsen across the time. They impair the sufferer’s quality of life considerably to an extant that the person’s ability to enjoy the normal life retards. The affect of the disease could be seen across physical, psychological, emotional, social and financial dimensions. Further more the negative impact of the disease on quality of life is not restricted to patients alone but also to the family members caring for them,and the society as a whole (Weintraub et al. 2008).
Presently the literature review is conducted to gain insight into Parkinson’s disease. Knowledge gained would be help full to develop the activity …show more content…
(2008), reported that fall injuries restricts social activities of the individual and increases length of hospital stay. Similarly review in non motor symptoms that comprises of mood, cognition , sensory disturbances , pain and behavioural problems, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease have shown high correlation with age and severity of Parkinson’s disease. Sleep, emotional problems and depression, difficulties in coordination and speech halts the life. Depression and anxiety have negative affect on cognitive process and causes sleep disturbances, (Shearer et al. …show more content…
Second to handle the affect of changes through medication and other means. Third to accept the disease psychologically, hold on to self esteem and psychological strength (Benharoch and Wiseman 2004). It was found that Self help group and social support help the patients to accept their medical condition and adapt to newly formed lifestyle arising from the disease model. The patients who lacked social support tend to be more stressed, anxious and showed more level of distress, (Simpson et al. 2006). It was also seen the self-help group helps the patients to accept the consequences of the disease whereas the others without the support of self group use denial mechanism,(Barrow and Charlton,
Presently the literature review is conducted to gain insight into Parkinson’s disease. Knowledge gained would be help full to develop the activity …show more content…
(2008), reported that fall injuries restricts social activities of the individual and increases length of hospital stay. Similarly review in non motor symptoms that comprises of mood, cognition , sensory disturbances , pain and behavioural problems, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease have shown high correlation with age and severity of Parkinson’s disease. Sleep, emotional problems and depression, difficulties in coordination and speech halts the life. Depression and anxiety have negative affect on cognitive process and causes sleep disturbances, (Shearer et al. …show more content…
Second to handle the affect of changes through medication and other means. Third to accept the disease psychologically, hold on to self esteem and psychological strength (Benharoch and Wiseman 2004). It was found that Self help group and social support help the patients to accept their medical condition and adapt to newly formed lifestyle arising from the disease model. The patients who lacked social support tend to be more stressed, anxious and showed more level of distress, (Simpson et al. 2006). It was also seen the self-help group helps the patients to accept the consequences of the disease whereas the others without the support of self group use denial mechanism,(Barrow and Charlton,