NIHAN Geriatric Seminar: Parkinson's Disease

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Submitted by Minnesota North... on Sep 7, 2025 - 9:37pm CDT

Resource Type: 
Webinar

NIHAN’s Geriatric Seminar Series provides free health care education and resources to the geriatric community, by presenting topics related to the 4M’s, an age-friendly health care framework—What Matters, Medication, Mobility, and Mentation. The goal of the 15-session NIHAN Geriatric Series is to foster healthy aging for old adults, in order to create a more healthy and age-friendly geriatric community in Nevada.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most rapidly growing neurological disorder in theworld, both in terms of prevalence and incidence. This webinar touches on that subject and covers recent breakthroughs of molecular pathology that leads to more accuracy in diagnosing and progression tracking.

In this seminar, topics covered include:
How common Parkinson's Disease is
Recent Breakthroughs of molecular pathology that leads to more accuracy in diagnosing and progression tracking

Source: Nevada Interprofessional Healthy Aging Network (NIHAN), 2024
https://www.nihan.care/older-adults-families/geriatric-seminars-2024/

Author(s): 
Zoltan Mari
Subject: 
Assessment & Evaluation
Education & Learning
Collections: 
Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection
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