How long can Parkinson's disease dementia live

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There is an old man with Parkinson's disease dementia in our community. His family is busy at work, so they don't have enough time to take care of him, so they hire a nanny for him. Let's talk about how long Parkinson's disease dementia can live.

How long can Parkinson's disease dementia live

First, Parkinson's disease is a central nervous disease characterized by static tremor, muscle spasm and multiple joint dysfunction. It is mainly caused by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain, which can not produce enough dopamine. At present, there is no good treatment, mainly symptomatic rehabilitation training and neuroprotective and neuroinhibitory drugs.

Second: when suffering from Parkinson's disease, then itself is not a threat to life, but when suffering from Parkinson's disease, then life will be infected with a lot of complications, pneumonia and other diseases will appear, especially when the inflammation aggravates, then it also has a great impact on their own life, so we should pay more attention to some.

Third: in general, patients with Parkinson's disease, active treatment, can effectively reduce the disease, but also can improve their quality of life, especially reduce some inflammatory infections, then life expectancy is greatly extended, when diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, then do not treat, will survive for 10 to 15 years, but if active treatment So there is no difference between life expectancy and normal people.

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Parkinson's disease patients with dementia basically will not affect the survival time, but the patient's state will not be good, in a dementia situation, which requires the patient's family members for the patient's care and care, so that the elderly can have a happy old age.