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Moving to Assisted Living: 5 Ways to Know When It’s Needed
Shared from dailycaring.com. Get help with this tough decision Moving to assisted living is a huge, difficult, and often heart-wrenching decision for caregivers. Guilt, promises made, and feelings of obligation make it even harder. Because there are so many emotions...
6 Ways to Calm Dementia Fidgeting Hands
Shared from dailycaring.com. Dementia can cause fidgeting hands Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia may show anxiety or agitation through fidgety hands. Signs include pulling or rubbing at clothes or bedding, rubbing hands together, twisting fingers,...
Types of Parkinsonism
Shared from myparkinsonsteam.com. Parkinsonism is a syndrome, or collection of symptoms, characterized by motor issues — bradykinesia (slowed movements), tremors, loss of balance, and stiffness. There are many types of parkinsonism, which are classified by their...
How Parkison’s disease affects the heart
Shared from apdaparkinson.org. It has long been understood that Parkinson’s disease (PD) does not just cause movement, or motor, symptoms, but also causes a litany of non-motor symptoms with effects throughout the body. One of the organ systems that is affected...
Managing Fatigue and Parkinson’s Disease: 6 Tips for More Energy
Shared from myparkinsonsteam.com. If you are living with Parkinson’s disease, you might often feel run-down, out of energy, or even a bone-deep kind of tired that isn’t relieved with rest. Those feelings of intense tiredness are known as fatigue — a symptom that...
Ryan Reynolds sheds light on A LESSER-KNOWN ASPECT OF PARKINSON’S
Shared from moretoparkinsons.com. Ryan Reynolds and his mother, Tammy, are raising awareness about another part of Parkinson’s disease—the less recognized but still common symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.more news & info[dsm_blog_carousel...
3 Effective Ways to Respond to Caregiver Criticism
Shared from dailycaring.com. Try a more effective response to caregiver criticism Getting criticized is unpleasant – especially from family or friends who don’t lift a finger to help care for your older adult. Yelling or getting upset might feel justified in the...
Effects of SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd on Functional Speech Measures in Parkinson’s Disease
Shared from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. This study investigated the effects of the SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd therapy program on speaking rate, percent pause time, intelligibility, naturalness, and communicative participation in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD).more...
Healthy Brains Act Takes Aim at Environmental Causes of Parkinson’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
Shared from apdaparkinson.org. Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton announced the introduction of a new bill which aims to fund research into environmental causes of neurodegenerative disease. Wexton, a Democrat from Virginia, has been diagnosed with Progressive...
Young-Onset Parkinson’s
Shared from parkinson.org.Young-onset Parkinson’s disease (YOPD) occurs in people younger than 50 years of age. Most people with idiopathic, or typical, PD develop symptoms at 50 years of age or older. YOPD affects about four percent of the one million people with PD...