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Background: Parkinson's disease affects facial, vocal and trunk muscles.
As symptoms progress, facial expression becomes masked, limiting the person's ability
to communicate emotions and intentions to others. As people with the disease live and
reside in their homes longer, the burden of caregiving is unmitigated by social and
emotional ... read morerewards provided by an expressive individual. Little is known about how
adults living with Parkinson's disease manage their social lives and how an inability
to be emotionally expressive can affect social connections and health. Because social
networks have been shown to be crucial to the overall well-being of people living
with chronic diseases, research is needed on how expressive capacity affects life
trajectories and health.
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, Social participation, Daily life
activities, Care giving, Facial expressiveness, Gender.
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- Tickle-Degnen, Linda, Marie Saint-Hilaire, Cathi A. Thomas,
Barbara Habermann, Linda S. Martinez, Norma Terrin, Farzad Noubary, and Elena N.
Naumova. "Emergence and evolution of social self-management of Parkinson's disease:
study protocol for a 3-year prospective cohort study." BMC Neurology 14, no. 1 (12,
2014): 1-12.
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