Delivering healthcare to people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) may be challenging in face of differentiated care needs during a PD journey and a growing complexity. In this regard, integrative care models may foster flexible solutions on patients' care needs whereas Parkinson Nurses (PN) may be pivotal facilitators. However, at present hardly any training opportunities tailored to the care priorities of P...
People living with Parkinson's disease (PwP) experience a wide range of motor and non-motor symptoms associated with increasing complexity of care delivery. A multispecialty approach has been presented as an intuitive solution for tailored and comprehensive care delivery. Nevertheless, past trials of both multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary care models in PD suggested no measurable change to a small benefit ...
The Personal View by Bloem and colleagues1 on integrated and patient-centred management of Parkinson's disease proposes a health system organisation to address complex care in chronic neurological disorders, using Parkinson's disease as an example. The proposed hub-and-spoke model envisions the integration of health professionals based on a Parkinson's disease centre of excellence integrated with community hosp...