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Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases associated with motor and non-motor symptoms. Depending on the care situation, the stage of the disease and the need for therapy are sometimes only assessed at annual specialist appointments. In the case of existing immobility, e.g. in the home environment or in nursing homes, patients with a high symptom burden may hardly ever be seen by a specialist. In the case of slowly progressing symptoms, such a frequency of specialist consultations may provide adequate care, but in practice there are also many cases of complex and rapidly changing symptoms that require dynamic adaptation of drug and non-drug interventions. In such patients, selective assessments are usually inadequate and do not provide a holistic view of the stressors affecting patients and their families. The expected future increase in Parkinson's syndromes due to an ageing society underlines the importance of adequate and comprehensive care.

Telemedicine solutions offer opportunities to visualise different domains of the disease and thus identify the need for further therapy in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's syndrome through various options for recording symptoms. Supplemented by regular clinical, radiological and biomedical progression assessments to verify the digital data acquisition, a comprehensive picture is created to determine predictors of a rapidly progressing disease.

The usability of the app's various modules is being tested and validated in various research projects. Currently, the modules of a digital Stroop test for recording self-perception and diadochokinesis (rapidly changing movements of the hands as an expression of the characteristic reduced mobility) are being tested to assess motor skills in non-depressed and non-demented Parkinson's patients.

Contact

Dr. Franziska Thieken
Telephone: 06421/58 - 65299
Fax: 06421/58 - 67055
thieken@staff*

Mrs Nadine Stoll and Mrs Marlena Kräbs
Telephone: 06421/58 - 65299
Fax: 06421/58 - 67055

* for a correct e-mail address, please add "uni-marburg.de".