Publications by authors named "Richard Dano"
Background: About one million people in need of home care in Germany are assisted by 15,400 home care services. Home healthcare is mostly a complex endeavour because interprofessional collaboration is often challenging. This might negatively impact patient safety.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic hit Germany in early 2020, leading the government to impose strict lockdown measures, including banning visits to nursing homes to protect vulnerable people.
- To understand how nursing homes in Germany managed during this time, researchers interviewed 78 managers from various homes about their experiences and challenges.
- They found both difficulties, like increased stress and communication demands, and some positive outcomes, such as better teamwork and support systems among managers.
The present study investigates speech changes in Parkinson's disease on the acoustic and articulatory level with respect to prosodic prominence marking. To display movements of the underlying articulators, speech data from 16 patients with Parkinson's disease were recorded using electromagnetic articulography. Speech tasks focused on strategies of prominence marking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe most frequently used instrument to assess health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in Parkinson's disease (PD) is the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire 39 (PDQ-39). However, both the dimensionality of the eight PDQ-39 subscales and their summary score recently faced criticism. Furthermore, data on disease-related and neuropsychological determinants and the role of gender on HrQoL in PD are inconclusive yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPalliative care in Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients considerably differs from palliative care in oncology patients. Integrated care models are a concept to support patients and improve management of PD symptoms. However, it is not known if the access to PD patients at the end of life can be achieved through integrated care models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Parkinson's disease (PD) patients suffer from xerostomia, but limited information exists regarding associations with dysphagia, drooling, daily habits, PD characteristics, or possible circadian rhythms.
Subjects And Methods: A questionnaire was administered, including (a) clinical characteristics (comorbidities, prescribed medications, levodopa equivalent daily dose [LEDD], disease duration); (b) self-assessment of dysphagia, xerostomia, drooling (10-cm visual analogue scale [VAS]); (c) 24-hr diary of motor impairment, dyskinesia, xerostomia, dysphagia, drooling, daily habits.
Results: Of 75 PD patients who completed the study, 67% reported dysphagia (mean ± standard deviation VAS 4 ± 2), 76% drooling (5 ± 2), 77% xerostomia (5 ± 2).