title: [Quality of life in Parkinson's disease].
abstract: Parkinson's disease(PD) is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease. QOL improvement could be the main endpoint in some clinical trials, such as in those carried out in palliative care or incurable disease. Several instruments that assess to QOL of PD(PDQOL) have been established such as SF36, PDQ39 and PDQL. This article is reviewed about the importance for the improvement of PDQOL and the influence to PDQOL from the point of view from the epidemiological studies in Japanese population. The various approaches to the patients are necessary for the improvement of PDQOL.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kusumi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakashima
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D015996:Survival Rate