Integration and extension of specialty mental healthcare services to community practice in Parkinson's disease

Beyond its disabling motor symptoms, Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly every organ system and produces significant daily dysfunction. However, the impact on mental health may be the most profound of effect of the disease.1 Anxiety, apathy, depression, psychosis, impulse control disorders, sleep disturbances, cognitive impairment and dementia are highly prevalent, resulting in lower quality of life, greater caregiver burden, increased risk of institutionalization, and greater physical morbidity and mortality.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Source Type: research