While the White House denies Joe Biden has Parkinson’s, both cognitive decline and falls can be symptoms. Here’s what to watch out for Joe Biden’s press secretary has been forced to deny that the US president is being treated for Parkinson’s disease after revelations emerged that neurologist Dr Kevin Cannard, a specialist in the disease, had visited the White House on eight separate occasions in the past year. It follows speculation about the state of 81-year-old Biden’s cognition , which is threatening to be a potentially decisive weakness in the run-up to this autumn’s presidential election .
Biden has struggled with memory lapses in recent years, appearing to lose his train of thought during last month’s debate with Donald Trump, as well as tripping and stumbling on multiple occasions during public appearances. While there are no suggestions that Biden has Parkinson’s, both cognitive decline and falls can be symptoms of the disease, a neurodegenerative condition which progresses over the course of years and sometimes even decades. So what are the key signs of Parkinson’s, a condition which has been described as the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease in the world due to its rapidly rising prevalence, and how does it progress?.
