Parkinson disease (PD) is common in long term care (LTC) facilities. The number of institutionalized patients with PD will rise sharply in the coming decades because of 2 concurrent phenomena: aging of the population leads to an increased PD prevalence and improved quality of care has led to a prolonged su...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common condition among older people and requires tailored, time-sensitive pharmacologic therapy for optimal symptom management. No prior studies have examined the extent to which doses of time-critical PD medicines are delayed or missed in residential aged care (RAC) sett...