Sep 27, 2024 | Caregiver Articles, Living with PD
Shared from dailycaring.com. These two services are often confused, so it’s important to understand the key differences and benefits of palliative care vs. hospice care. Depending on their health conditions, one or both of these services could significantly...
Sep 19, 2024 | General Interest, Living with PD
Shared from parkinson.org. There is a general lack of awareness of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) among many healthcare professionals and the general public. A long road to an accurate clinical...
Sep 13, 2024 | Caregiver Articles, Living with PD
Shared from theconversationproject.org Our free Conversation Guides can help you have conversations with the important people in your life about your – or their – wishes for care through the end of life. Get started! All the Guides are available to download and...
Sep 13, 2024 | Living with PD
Shared from michaeljfox.org. Dystonia and dyskinesia are extra movements that can, but don’t always, happen in people living with Parkinson’s. Too much, or too little, medication can affect these movements, which are different from the core motor symptoms...
Sep 13, 2024 | Living with PD
Shared from parkinson.org. Freezing of gait is a common Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptom where a person experiences the temporary, involuntary inability to move. This can make simple activities, like walking across a room, incredibly challenging and dangerous due to...
Sep 13, 2024 | Living with PD
Shared from nuplazid.com Are hallucinations and delusions an aspect of Parkinson’s? Hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or experiencing things that others don’t) and delusions (believing things that aren’t true) are non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Together...
