Best Care for People with Late-Stage Parkinson’s Disease - Part One

Learn expert care advice from the University of Padova

Parkinson’s is a complex disease with wide-ranging impacts on both patient and caregiver. This six-week course from the University of Padova and the PD_Pal Project (H2020, GA825785) Consortium will help you navigate this complexity to provide better care for patients, their family, and the professionals involved in the care path.

In the context of movement disorders and palliative care education, you’ll develop your understanding of the disease and your skills in managing the complexity of Parkinson’s disease.

What’s more, you’ll gain practical coping skills to help you with the difficulties of providing care and preventing burnout.

Discover palliative care principles

The early and timely integration of palliative care has been shown to help deal with the impacts of Parkinson’s disease.

You’ll be provided with training on how to administer palliative care to enhance your practices.

Understand different practices for Parkinson’s disease treatment

To help you understand how Parkinson’s disease can be managed, you’ll explore different treatments and interdisciplinary approaches.

You’ll discover treatment options such as palliative care, surgery, and complementary therapies for both early Parkinson’s disease as well as the advanced phase of the disease.

Identify Parkinson’s disease symptoms and indicators of different disease stages

Next, you’ll learn how to improve the quality of life for your patients as you discover how Parkinson’s disease symptoms affect daily activities.

Finally, you’ll learn practical tips to help reduce the burden and stress for those in the caregiving role – either in a professional or personal capacity.

Once you have completed this course, move on to ‘Part Two of Best Care for People with Late-Stage Parkinson’s Disease’ to further your knowledge.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers involved in the management of Parkinson’s disease. Also for students interested in Palliative care and Parkinson’s and Health care professors.

It addresses the educational and training needs of both patients and caregivers.

• Parkinson’s Disease
• Introduction to the course
• Understanding Parkinson’s Disease
• Diagnosis and symptoms of Parkinson’s
• Wrapping up the week
• Palliative care Principles and concepts
• Palliative Care: Historical background
• Palliative Care principles
• Loss, grief and bereavement in Health Care Professionals
• Self-Care strategies for Health Care Professionals
• Wrapping up the week
• Parkinson’s Disease and it’s Management
• Treatment options for early Parkinson’s Disease
• Advanced Parkinson’s Disease: management and options
• Wrapping up the week
• Interdisciplinary Approaches for the Management of Parkinson’s Disease
• Interdisciplinary approaches for Parkinson’s Disease management
• Hand-on clinical cases
• Wrapping up the week
• Getting on with life (Living with Parkinson’s Disease)
• Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease and their management
• Dealing with the impact of Parkinson’s Disease
• Wrapping up the week
• Providing Care for Caregivers
• Caregivers: issues, rights and caring skills
• Care for caregivers
• Wrapping up the week