Pascal Soetens, former host of the famous reality show Pascal the big brother, suffers from seeing his mother’s health deteriorate.
- Parkinson’s disease is a chronic neurological disease that evolves differently from one patient to another.
- The average age of death for patients with Parkinson’s disease is 84 years.
“It’s very, very hard to see your parents like that. I don’t want anyone to go through that, but it’s part of life’s trials”. In an interview relayed by Closer, Pascal Soetens, former host of the famous reality show Pascal the big brother, made sad secrets about his parents.
“I want to go”
On his father, first, who ended his life, exhausted by his polyarthritis, a painful joint disease. And on his mother, then, suffering from Parkinson’s disease. “It’s very difficult because she’s starting to walk less, she has a lot of trouble expressing herself and is shaking a lot,” laments the educator, who goes to see her in her retirement home as often as possible.
The star of the small screen also reports recent comments from her mother, who is living very badly with the consequences of the health crisis. “Pascal, I’m fed up, I want to leave. What is this life like? The state prevents us from going out, from moving… We’re all vaccinated, but I can’t go see my neighbor who is not Covid and I am forced to stay locked in a room of 15 square meters”, she would have told him.
Explosion in the number of patients
Parkinson’s disease is the neurological disease that has increased the most between 1990 and 2015: the number of its victims has doubled. At the end of 2015, the number of Parkinson’s patients treated was around 160,000, with around 25,000 new cases per year. By 2030, the number of Parkinson’s patients will have increased by 56% compared to 2015, with one person affected in 120 among those aged over 45.
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