As has been happening for scientific conferences all over the world since the Covid pandemic redefined priorities and lifestyles, even the appointments of the Parkinson’s disease day this year were held in virtual mode and not with the usual meeting between employees to the works and public in the various specialized centers of the entire peninsula. Respecting the tradition of the last few years in which each center deals with topics of its choice, even the virtual platform used by the Limpe Foundation (Italian League of Parkinson’s disease onlus) for the national event, different interventions were simultaneously put online from region to region. (www.fondazionelimpe.it/giornata-nazionale-parkinson). Thanks to an agreement with Rai Tv, Radio 1, Giornale Radio and TGR, they were all illustrated on Friday by President Limpe Lorenzo Lopiano and by President Limpe-Dismov Mario Zappia in the program Sanit Regional Models in comparison which also saw the participation of the Deputy Minister to Sanit Sileri and the journalist Vincenzo Mollica who, as revealed in an interview last year with this newspaper, he has been suffering from this disease for some time .
–
Isolation
Among the many issues addressed, it is difficult to choose one that can act as a common thread for the day, but there is one that runs like a red thread between Piedmont and Puglia to tackle a problem that has emerged with a disruptive impact with the pandemic: the defense of fragile patients to which those with Parkinson’s disease belong. And to this are linked a whole series of problems ranging from the isolation that these patients already lived before, to the depression that Covid has simply accentuated, up to the selective exclusion even from virtual communication and from the much heralded smart working that affects not only the classic mature patients, but also the growing number of those with youthful forms who cannot use PC or smart for finger motor joint problems.
–
Telemedicine
Another aspect that acquires increasing importance in these patients more than ever is that of telehealth, remote telemedine and teleconsultation, services to which they have difficulty in accessing both simply physical problems and because in Italy they appear mostly lacking, while critical, complex and chronic patients must be protected from contagion also by avoiding travel from home for treatment. To all these problems that revolve around the simple disease, the parkinson’s specialists are committed to giving an answer: if the day in Turin, divided between the City of Health and Science, Martini Hospital and Maria Vittoria Hospital, was entitled Not only covid, that of the Puglia Region was entitled Management of Parkinson’s disease in the Covid era.
–
–
29 November 2020 (change November 29, 2020 | 08:05)
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED
–
