3PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND ITS TREATMENTIntroduction Mr. Ratin Bhai is an octogenerian widower, is diagnosed with both theParkinsons disease and hypothyroidism four years back. He is under the medicationfor both the diseases and uses thyroxin, cabidopa/levodopa combination drugs andentacapone. He lives alone as his wife died a year ago and has no children.Recently, he observed to be suffering from a slight tremor and is facing problems incarrying out the daily household choirs. Parkinson’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease, affecting mainlythe older people that have no treatments as such but the patients suffering from itshould be taken great care of (Rodriguez et al., 2015). The symptoms and thetreatment procedures vary greatly with different patients depending on the extent ofthe disease they acquire. The identification of the disease, the history of the patient, the goals of thetreatment and the various interventions that may be taken are the topic ofdiscussion. The outcome of the actions taken in order to cure the patient is alsodiscussed here in this report along with the lesson one might get from it.Discussion Scenario 1 outlines the social and physical condition of an eighty seven yearsold widower. He has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and hypothyroidism.He uses different medications in order to control his hypothyroidism. Recently, Mr.Ratin Bhai is observing that his hands are tremoring slightly and this problem isincreasing gradually (Thenganatt & Jankovic, 2016). He is under the medication likethyroxin, carbidopa/levodopa and entacapone. Neurodegeneration is the outcome of

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