Parkinsons Treatment Indonesian Edition: 10 Secrets to a Happier Life 10 Rahasia Menggapai Harapan dan Hidup Lebih Bahagia dengan Penyakit Parkinson

by Michael S. Okun M.D.

Overview

10 Rahasia Menggapai Harapan dan Hidup Lebih Bahagia dengan Penyakit Parkinson

Akhir-akhir ini, perkiraan jumlah orang yang terserang penyakit Parkinson sangat mengejutkan. Jika estimasi ini akurat, maka angka ini hampir mencapai titik puncak dari sebuah pandemi. Hal ini sangatlah menakutkan kita dan membuat kita mempertimbangkan bahwa di negara-negara yang paling padat penduduknya di dunia, jumlah penderita Parkinson akan berlipat ganda menjadi hampir 30 juta pada tahun 2030. Meningkatnya data statistik ini mungkin tampak luar biasa, tetapi hal ini nyata, dan hal ini dipicu oleh populasi usia lanjut yang semakin bertambah banyak. Usia merupakan faktor risiko yang tidak dapat dihindari ataupun ditolak dan faktor ini adalah salah satu yang mendukung bertambahnya jumlah penyakit Parkinson. Semakin meningkatnya usia harapan hidup, maka semakin meningkat pula jumlah penderita. Dengan kata lain, jika semua orang ingin hidup 100 tahun, kita akan dipaksa untuk berhubungan dengan penyakit Parkinson, dan itu akan menjadi krisis di seluruh dunia.
Dalam perjalanan hidup sebagai Direktur Medis Nasional untuk yayasan Parkinson nasional (National Parkinson Foundation/NPF), saya telah bertemu puluhan ribu penderita penyakit Parkinson, anggota keluarga, dan teman-teman. Salah satu pertanyaan yang paling umum di dalam pikiran mereka adalah "apa yang bisa saya lakukan untuk membuat hidup saya dan kehidupan di sekitar saya lebih baik?" Saya menulis buku ini untuk membantu memuaskan rasa penasaran yang diceritakan oleh penderita Parkinson dan keluarga di seluruh dunia. Dengan rasa semangat, melalui jaringan kami, mantan rekan dan kolega kami telah menerjemahkan buku ini ke dalam banyak bahasa mungkin untuk mendapatkan kata kunci tentang rahasia untuk berharap dan kehidupan yang lebih bahagia dengan penyakit Parkinson.

The most humbling experience of my life has been the time I have spent with families, and with patients suffering from Parkinson’s and chronic neurological diseases. I use the word humbling, because time after time, in person, and also on the web forum, we have uncovered simple and addressable issues and secrets that have changed people’s lives. For some sufferers it has meant walking again, for others it has restored their voices, and for many it has resulted in the lifting of a depression, anxiety and desperation cloud that has obscured their dreams, and robbed them of potential unrealized happiness. I never assume a sufferer or family member is aware of the “secrets” that may lead to hope and to a happier life. We must share these secrets, and this is the purpose of this book.

Each chapter of this book reveals an important secret, and with each secret I will explain the insight, the rationale, the empiricism, and the science behind it. In each chapter I will also try to reveal a little more about myself, and a lot more about the patients and talented clinicians who gifted the Parkinson's secrets. These patients planted the seed of faith. They learned to grow hope, and they discovered the core values necessary to achieve happiness despite the chronic illness of Parkinson's disease.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045330459
Publisher:	Michael S. Okun M.D.
Publication date:	10/07/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	260 KB
Language:	Indonesian

About the Author

Michael S. Okun, MD is considered a world's authority on Parkinson's disease treatment, and his publications provide a voice and an outlet to empower people living all over the world.

He is currently Administrative Director and Co-director of the University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration. The center he runs is unique in that it is comprised of over 45 interdisciplinary faculty members from diverse areas of campus, all of whom are dedicated to care, outreach, education and research. Dr. Okun has been dedicated to this interdisciplinary care concept, and since his appointment as the National Medical Director for the National Parkinson Foundation in 2006, he has worked with the 43 international NPF centers of excellence to help foster the best possible environments for care, research and outreach in Parkinson disease, dystonia, Tourette, and movement disorders.

Dr. Okun has been supported by grants from the National Parkinson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Parkinson Alliance, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease Research, and he currently runs the online international “Ask The Expert” forums, on the National Parkinson Foundation website. The forum is a free service that answers questions from every continent (except Antartica) and has over 10,000 postings in the last 3 years alone.

Dr. Okun has dedicated much of his career to the development of care centers for people suffering with movement disorders, but has also has enjoyed a prolific research career exploring non-motor basal ganglia brain features, and he has participated in pioneering studies exploring the cognitive, behavioral, and mood effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS). Dr. Okun holds the Adelaide Lackner Professorship in Neurology, has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, is a published poet (Lessons From the Bedside, 1995, available at Amazon.com), and has served as a reviewer for more than 25 major medical journals including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has been invited to speak about Parkinson disease and movement disorders all over the world. His published works can be found in many sources and many languages and in such places as the New England Journal of Medicine and on the patient forums and blogs at the National Parkinson Foundation and at http://www.parkinsonsecrets.com.