Palliative care in parkinson's disease

Acquisizione competenze tecnico-professionali:There is a growing awareness of the potential benefit of palliative care interventions in parkinson's disease, given its incurable nature and current treatment strategies, which are primarily symptomatic. The high burden of non-motor symptoms that are difficult to manage, the high distress of caregivers, and the high utilization of medical services especially in the last years of life have become evident. Similar to cancer patients, albeit for a longer duration, pd patients have significant (and mounting) unmet physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs and encounter great problems in care coordination and continuity of care. However, knowledge about palliative care components and multidisciplinary approaches in pd is limited.