Application Of An Integrated Approach To Cognitive Communicative Rehabilitation In Parkinson's Disease

Abstract

This is a clinical case of a 63-year-old male patient diagnosed with hypokinetic Parkinson's disease evaluated through standardized and qualitative methods of global cognitive-communicative functioning. A rehabilitation program was implemented applying an integral approach in 237 cognitive, language, and speech therapy sessions interspersed weekly in a 12-month execution time. Which, ten modules of exercises were organized for orientation, memory, attention, language, reading-writing, praxis, executive functions, calculation, speech, interdisciplinary support, and general recommendations to the caregiver for the linear development based on the priority needs of the patient according to moderate cognitive impairment degree. The integral therapeutic process results allowed compensation for the cognitive-communicative deficits of the patient, positively impacting his life quality determined by his improvement in the functional relationship of interaction with his environment from the family and social spheres.