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International Conference on
Alzheimers Disease and Dementia
November 25-26, 2019 | Frankfurt, Germany
Journal of Psychology and Cognition | Volume: 04
J Psychol Cognition, Volume: 04
Parkinson's disease Dementia and the role of patients' association
Vuletic Vladimira
University of Rijeka, Croatia
D
ementia is a frequent but often unrecognized problem
in advanced stages of Parkinson disease (PD). Usually,
PD is consider as mostly a motor disease, but non-motor
symptoms are influencing the quality of life the most of the
patients and caregivers and they are the most important
reason for institutionalization of PD patients. A modern
approach to PD is holistic and include individual treatment
of motor and non-motor symptoms especially dementia.
The point prevalence of Parkinson’s disease dementia
(PDD) in PD patients is around 30% and around 10% of a
PD population will develop dementia per year. Risk factors
studied so far are: higher age, more severe parkinsonism, in
particular rigidity, postural instability and gait disturbance,
and mild cognitive impairment at baseline; and also male
gender, education, depression, visual hallucinations can
influence on that. There are a lot of different biomarker
studies trying to predict pre-dementia stages of cognitive
impairment in PD, when we can try with researching
of some neuroprotective treatments. We know now a
lot of neurobiological, neuropathological, genetics and
laboratories values in predicting dementia. But what is
important is how to deal in every-day life. The importance
of education, recognition, prevention, early intervention,
counseling, supporting, and networking are well-known.
In the health systems that are not so well organized
considering pre-demented and demented patients, the
roll of association of PD patients, family members and
caregivers is even bigger than you will expected. In this
lecture, the role of PD patients association in Croatia in pre-
demented and demented PD patients will be discussed.
Biography
Vuletic Vladimira has completed her PhD at the age of 39 years from
Osijek University, Croatia. She is the director and Associate professor of
Clinical Department of Neurology, University Hospital Rijeka, Croatia and
head of Neurology Department on Medical faculty University of Rijeka,
Croatia. She has lot of publication with a lot of citation is an editorial
board member of reputed Journals.
e:
vladimira.vuletic@gmail.com