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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...
Ryan Reynolds Opens Up About His Late Father’s Hallucinations from Parkinson’s: ‘Wish I Knew Then’ (Exclusive)
Shared from people.com. Ryan Reynolds was 22 when his father, James Chester Reynolds, a former police officer, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. But their Vancouver family rarely discussed the topic. “He said the word ‘Parkinson’s’ maybe three times as far...
Adult Day Programs Help Seniors Live at Home Longer
Shared from dailycaring.com. Adult day programs improve quality of life for seniors and caregivers When your older adult can’t safely be alone all day on their own or if they feel lonely or isolated, consider enrolling them in an adult day program. Adult day...
Losing Sense of Smell May Be an Early Sign of Neurologic Disease
Shared from brainandlife.org. Roger Fredenburg always looked forward to the scent of freshly baked bread wafting from a bakery near the hair salon he owned in Bellevue, NE. Then one morning in the late 1990s, as he approached the bakery, he was puzzled when he...
DaTscan: A test to help in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s
Shared from apdaparkinson.org. In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an imaging test to help diagnose Parkinson’s disease (PD) called DaTscan (dopamine transporter scan). In this test, a radioactive tracer, Ioflupane, also known as DaTscan, is...