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. 2020 Jun 9:11:502.
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00502. eCollection 2020.

Patient-Centric Care for Parkinson's Disease: From Hospital to the Community

Yin Minn Aye  1   2   3 , Sylvia Liew  4 , Shermyn Xiumin Neo  1   2 , Wei Li  1   2   4 , Hwee-Lan Ng  1   2 , Shu-Ting Chua  1   2 , Wen-Tao Zhou  1   2 , Wing-Lok Au  1   2 , Eng-King Tan  1   2 , Kay-Yaw Tay  1   2   4 , Louis Chew-Seng Tan  1   2   4 , Zheyu Xu  1   2   4
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Patient-Centric Care for Parkinson's Disease: From Hospital to the Community

Yin Minn Aye et al. Front Neurol. .

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease with complex motor and non-motor symptoms often leading to significant caregiver burden. An integrated, multidisciplinary care setup involving different healthcare professionals is the mainstay in the holistic management of PD. Many challenges in delivering multidisciplinary team (MDT) care exist, such as insufficient expertise among different healthcare professionals, poor interdisciplinary collaboration, and communication. The need to attend different clinics, incurring additional traveling and waiting time for allied health therapies can also make MDT care more burdensome. By shifting MDT care to local community settings and into patients' homes, patient-centered care can be achieved. In Singapore, the National Neuroscience Institute created the Community Care Partners Programme in 2007 to bring the allied MDT team to the community and nurse-led Integrated Community Care Programme for Parkinson's Disease in 2012 to provide care in community and at patient's home. However, attaining MDT care in the community setting is difficult to achieve where there is a shortage of PD-trained professionals. As such, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary management would be other best practice options to deliver patient-centric care in PD. Telemedicine could be another viable option to bring the MDT closer to the patient.

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; Singapore model of care; community care; multidisciplinary approach; telemedicine.

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