EAN 2026 | Recognizing and addressing the broader impact of MS on patients’ daily lives
Marta Ponzano, MD, Link Campus University, Rome, Italy, comments on the importance of recognizing and addressing the broader impact of multiple sclerosis (MS) on patients’ daily lives, beyond just physical symptoms. Dr Ponzano highlights the need for a collaborative approach, involving neurologists, social support, psychological support, and public health, to identify and address social problems and other less visible aspects of the disease. This interview took place at the 12th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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We’ve seen that in fact individuals with MS are affected in several aspects of life beyond the disability but of course neurologists have to treat the disability but not to forget also other aspects of life so this means that it is very important in my opinion to early recognize some social problems that individuals may have and also to address them and addressing these problems means that actually there should be a collaborative approach because this should be done by the neurologist in the clinical practice but also by social support by psychological support by public health in general so I think that the key aspect for solving this problem is to have a collaboration among different professionals to recognize and of course address these problems...
We’ve seen that in fact individuals with MS are affected in several aspects of life beyond the disability but of course neurologists have to treat the disability but not to forget also other aspects of life so this means that it is very important in my opinion to early recognize some social problems that individuals may have and also to address them and addressing these problems means that actually there should be a collaborative approach because this should be done by the neurologist in the clinical practice but also by social support by psychological support by public health in general so I think that the key aspect for solving this problem is to have a collaboration among different professionals to recognize and of course address these problems. In fact actually we also evaluated other aspects using the same data set and for example we also found that disability of MS may increase also other, like also abuse. So it is important to have a collaboration with many professionals, from psychologists to neurologists.
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