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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Parkinson's disease, Geriatric depression, Lumbar spinal stenosis, Geriatric medicine in Egypt, Nursing home, Geriatric intensive-care unit, Home care, Sarcopenia, Elderly care, Diane E. Meier, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Mini-mental state examination, Geriatric nursing, Normal pressure hydrocephalus, 2-1-1, Senile osteoporosis, General Practitioner Assessment Of Cognition, Geriatric neurology, Fall prevention, Assisted living, Falls in older adults, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, Parkinsonism, Wesley Woods, Care of residents, Geriatric oncology, Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly, Alliance for Aging Research, Geriatric anesthesia, Mark H. Beers, Hip protector, Aging-associated diseases, Life Alert Emergency Response, Ignatz Leo Nascher, Frailty syndrome, Geriatric care management, Geriatric trauma, Ecumen, Geriatric rheumatology, Beers Criteria, Geriatric rehabilitation, Curotek, Judith A. Salerno, Institute for Geriatric Social Work, Total care, Malford W. Thewlis, Continuing care, Osteolysis, Queensland Community Care Network, Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders, Abbreviated mental test score, American Geriatrics Society, Geriatric psychiatry, Okinawa Centenarian Study, American Health Care Association, Geriatric nephrology, Oswald Taylor Brown, Money Follows the Person, Cardiogeriatrics, Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial, Cervical spinal stenosis, ACE unit, The Fountain of Age, Primary caregiver, International Collaboration for the Care of the Elderly. Excerpt: Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson disease, Parkinson's, idiopathic parkinsonism, primary parkinsonism, PD, or paralysis agitans) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. It results from the death of dopamine-containing cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain; the c...
