According to one prominent study, adults in the United States receive the generally accepted standard of preventive, acute, and chronic care only about 55% of the time. The likelihood that patients will receive recommended care “varie[s] substantially according to the particular medical condition, ranging from 78.7 percent of recommended care . . . for senile cataract to 10.5 percent of recomme...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) stands for to the general well-being of the populations in the societies. Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of living, which is based primarily on income. Instead, standard indicators of the QOL include not only wealth and employment, but also built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time ...

PURPOSE To compare the speech and voice of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and neurologically healthy elderly adults (control group, CG), to find out whether these features are related to the disease or the normal aging process, and investigate the impact that dysarthria has on the Quality of Life (QoL) of these individuals. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study involving 25 individuals, ...