2024 Volume 39 Issue 5 Pages 259-264
[Purpose] We report the home-visit rehabilitation for a patient who continued to live at home while his symptoms gradually progressed and his ADL declined after the onset of Parkinson’s disease (PD). [Participant and Methods] The patient was a male in his 70s, diagnosed with PD (Hoehn & Yahr stage III) in 2010, whose home nursing and home rehabilitation started in 2020. [Results] The introduction of home-visit rehabilitation and appropriate welfare equipment maintained the patient’s physical functions and facilitated regular opportunities to go out enabling the patient to continue to live at home. [Conclusion] The role of home-visit rehabilitation is to maintain patients’ motor functions and their ability to perform activities of daily living. However, it is also important to adopt an approach aimed at psychological stability through social life by enabling opportunities to go out.
