Angela Robb is a 25-year wife and care partner for her husband Karl, diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease (YOPD) for over 30 years. Here’s a short article Angela wrote on self-care for PD caregivers, recently published on the World Parkinson Congress blog.
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Every month, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach produces a list of Parkinson’s-related webinars and virtual meetings with speakers. Here’s our October 2021 list.
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Occasionally we come across good resources on fall prevention that are not specific to Parkinson’s disease. Here’s a short list of helpful resources on picking up someone after a fall and general fall prevention.
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Every month, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach produces a list of Parkinson’s-related webinars and virtual meetings with speakers. Here’s our October 2021 list.
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This interesting new research of 300,000 people with PD and 1.2 million matched controls explored prodromal Parkinson’s disease by studying the skin, genitourinary, and gastrointestinal issues reported. The researchers say that studying these systems “offers a unique window for understanding early disease pathogenesis and developing disease modifying treatments.”