Psychological support to 100 Parkinson Patients

During this reporting period, Parkinson patients support organization Ethiopia was taking Agreements have been reached with Portion on the basis of their pricing and print quality to enable them to reprint national booklets designed to help Parkinson's patients, their families and caregivers, as well as the general public, increase their awareness and knowledge.

In addition, a series of 1,000 leaflets have been produced at the Parkinson's Foundation and in the context of national realities to answer key questions in the Patient Experience and Awareness Forum, which can help identify key issues. With the help of home-based care and support physicians, more than 25 Parkinson's patients were visited, and hygiene kits were distributed alongside their professional support and care.

Lesson Learn

As an organization, Parkinson's patient support organization acquires the necessary skill in knowledge management and documentation; to address the PD patients and their caregivers and the public at large, it is critical to internalize the actual truth and facts on the ground. and for the best point of forwarding and addressing most frequent questions raising among the direct and indirect targets, possible inputs, and the needs and type of patients have been collected and organized for different purposes and publications are among one of them.

It is clearly known that among the challenges that matter to Parkinson’s patients most are psychological stress and hallucination. This is mainly because, in one or another way, they are more vulnerable to and exposed to different socioeconomic and emotional strains due to various circumstances. It is a fact that stress increases the damage of dopamine cells and result in serious Parkinson's symptoms.

Therefore, the organization had made different approaches to empower the psychological wellbeing of its patients through friendly ways by incorporating the activity with other patient inspiration and motivational training. As a result, they are calm and try to test the hallucinations, empowered with how to focus on what they can do, and play alongside by taking care of their own safety. Parkinson patient support organization Ethiopia finds it critical that continuous psychological counseling services provided for PD patients who can either come to our office, visit during home to home care and support services or take part in the patient focus training contribute advanced valuable efforts to ensure their quality of life and witnessed practical changes observed over the life of its Parkinson’s patients.