Part one of term paper
More than ninety per cent of all patients with Parkinson's disease live at home with their families. The purpose of this report is to help the patient and family to achieve better adjustments to home living. Our goal is to make each patient as comfortable and contented as pos- sible in spite of the disease and to increase the understand- in ...

Part two of term paper
... and will afford a better ulti- mate outlook for the patient. The patient, however, should be told in a way that will not upset, frighten or discourage him. The facts should be quietly laid before him in an optimistic way so that he may achieve a sensible adapta- tion. Two hundred and ninety-nine of three hundred pa- tients who were asked if they felt they should he told by their doctor when he was sure of the diagnosis replied "Yes". It is quite obvious that you cannot learn to adapt and handl ...