What is it about?

This paper discusses how the covid-19 crisis affects the lives of people living with Parkinson's disease. It outlines the problems patients encounter (sorrows) and hopeful new initiatives that can improve the care for Parkinson's disease in the future.

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Why is it important?

It is the first paper that discusses the covid-19 effects on Parkinson's disease.

Perspectives

The covid-19 crisis has detrimental consequences for people's lives, but also opens a number of opportunities that may improve care for Parkinson's disease in the long term (for example te development of self-management therapeutic strategies).

Rick Helmich
Radboud Universiteit

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This page is a summary of: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parkinson’s Disease: Hidden Sorrows and Emerging Opportunities, Journal of Parkinson s Disease, April 2020, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/jpd-202038.
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