Stanford PD Community Blog

There’s still a lot we don’t know about how Parkinson’s disease develops. But one lifestyle intervention already has strong evidence behind it.

The number of people living with Parkinson’s disease globally has doubled in the past 25 years. Yet the treatment and monitoring of the neurological disease seems many decades behind. Now, Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a simple, portable device to help patients track their symptoms at home.

The most common factors are in the home

Among people over 65 years of age, falls are the primary cause of serious injuries and accidental death — everything from broken bones to traumatic brain injury. Statistically, if you’ve fallen once, your chances of falling again rise by a factor of two.

Researchers found that people with upper gastrointestinal conditions were far more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease later in life

Watching a parent’s mind slip away from dementia is difficult in any circumstance. It’s even harder when your father is a lifelong lawyer who insists he has one final case to win.