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- Alzheimer's Disease
- A degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized especially by premature senile mental deterioration.
- Arthritis
- Inflammation of joints due to infectious, metabolic, or constitutional causes.
- Coronary Heart Disease
- The effect of an inadequate supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle (myocardium) because of narrowing or blocking of a coronary artery by fatty and fibrous tissue.
- Dementia
- A condition of deteriorated mentality often with emotional apathy.
- Depression
- A psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies.
- Diabetes
- A disorder of carbohydrate metabolism characterized by the impaired ability of the body to produce or respond to insulin and thereby maintain proper levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood.
- Incontinence And Other Urinary Tract Problems
- Inability of the body to control the evacuative functions.
- Osteoporosis
- A condition that affects especially older women and is characterized by decrease in bone mass with decreased density and enlargement of bone spaces producing porosity and fragility.
- Parkinson's Disease
- A chronic progressive nervous disease chiefly of later life
that is linked to decreased dopamine production in the substantia nigra
and is marked by tremor and weakness of resting muscles and by a shuffling
gait.
- The National Parkinson's Foundation, Inc.
- The American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc.
- Parkinson's disease Caregiver Information :MyParkinsons.org - Information and discussion forum for caregivers of Parkinson's disease patients.
- Parkinson's: The Vermont Chapter (APDA) Lists support groups, resources, YOPD group information, etc.
- Sensory Impairment
- Sensory input is diminished, distorted, or impaired, and its organizing effect upon the screening and scanning mechanism is decreased.
- Sexual Dysfunction
- The inability of a person to experience sexual arousal or to achieve sexual satisfaction under appropriate circumstances, as a result of either physical disorder or, more commonly, psychological problems.
- Stroke
- Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion caused by rupture or obstruction (as by a clot) of an artery of the brain.
- Other Health Services
- A listing of other health services.