2024
DOI: 10.3233/jpd-240193
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Winding Back the Clock on Advanced Therapies: It’s Time to Get Smart

Matthew J. Georgiades,
Anton A. van der Plas,
Bastiaan R. Bloem
et al.

Abstract: Our language affects patients’ perceptions of therapies. In Parkinson’s disease, emergent response fluctuations and dyskinesias typically trigger conversations around commencing an “Advanced Therapy” which carries notions of Advanced Disease. The patient, resolute in their commitment to fighting the disease, is misled. Chasing reassurance that their disease has not yet progressed considerably; they may therefore resist a potentially life-changing therapy. Instead, we should offer a “Smart Therapy”. This term m… Show more

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