Stanford PD Community Blog

On January 27th, Family Caregiver Alliance hosted Helen Bauer, RN, and Jerry Fenter, spiritual counselor, both from The Heart of Hospice in Beaumont, Texas. The speakers offered suggestions on how to pick the best hospice options for you. Additionally, they explained the rights of the patients and who the care team is. We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach listened to the webinar and are sharing our notes. This talk is NOT specifically about hospice care for Parkinson’s or any disorder.

On January 19th the Davis Phinney Foundation hosted a webinar on Speech, Voice, and Parkinson’s.  Mel Dizon, with the Davis Phinney Foundation, did a question & answer hour with speech-language pathologist (SLP), John Dean.  The focus was on the concrete ways a speech therapist or SLP can help those with PD and the kinds of exercises a good SLP will do with someone who has PD. 

In August 2020, the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) hosted Teresa Baker, PT, DPT for a webinar called “Let’s Keep Moving with APDA: Assessing Balance with a Physical Therapist.”  Teresa is a physical therapist from Boston University’s Center for Neurorehabilitation.  (This is the APDA’s National Rehab Resource Center.)  We at Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach listened to the webinar and are sharing our notes.

The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Connecticut Chapter hosted a webinar in early January 2021 on new medications and therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD). The speaker was Lean Meytin, MD, Movement Disorder Specialist at Hartford Healthcare in Hartford, CT. He discussed the current treatment landscape for PD, including newly approved medications, and answered audience questions.