Every month, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach produces a list of caregiving-related webinars and virtual events (conferences, symposia, and teleconferences). Here’s our February 2021 list of caregiving webinars and virtual events. Most of the webinars listed are for a general audience and are free. Be sure to register in advance!
Every month, Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach produces a list of Parkinson’s-related webinars and virtual meetings with speakers. Here’s our hefty February 2021 list. Note that a few webinars have registration deadlines several days PRIOR to the webinar dates. Be sure to register in advance!
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At the start of 2020, an 82 year-old man we’ll call Walter was using many of the strategies that we have been discussing throughout this series Reducing Falls For Older Adults — staying active, managing his chronic conditions, and exercising to improve his balance.
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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.
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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.
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