By Dagem Assefa | Project PR and RM Expert
As the disease progress, neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson's will always expose patients to various socio-economic, psychological, and other physical and mental health complications.
Based on our experience, as the stage of the disease increase; disability increases, and quality of life deteriorates. So, given this, PPSO-E understands it is very critical to provide assistive materials for the patients who are approaching or in the advanced stage, they require supportive and assistive materials to come up with movement challenges. but this becomes worsen once they can't access waking aid and/or don't have human caregiver support, they are almost lying on the bed all day and night. which exactly means then, there is less access to take care of their needs all their ways.
As a result of the worsening of the disease, patients are exposed to a variety of problems, especially urinary incontinence, which can make it difficult for them to control their urination, which can be detrimental to their social functioning. therefore during this reporting period, Parkinson's patient support organizations in Ethiopia were made mini patient need assessment and identifying the right PD patients who are in need of having a latrine. following the selection, about 12 mobile toilets were produced/ constructed and distributed to bedridden PD patients.
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