Parkinsons Foundation
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If managing your Parkinson's has become more challenging than it used to be, the book Managing Parkinson's Mid-Stride: A Treatment Guide to Parkinson's is for you. This audiobook explains why symptoms may get better and worse throughout the day and how to treat and cope with them. Find answers and read tips and stories that can help.
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The aim of this book is to describe the various types of surgical treatment that can be utilized to reduce Parkinson's disease (PD) symptoms in a subset of carefully selected individuals with a specific symptom or symptoms. This book will focus on the following potential therapies: deep brain stimulation (DBS), duopa therapy, lesion therapy, focused ultrasound.
This book was designed as a practical guide to explain the complete process required for...
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There is no standard treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). Treatment for each person with Parkinson's is based on his or her symptoms. There are many medications available to treat the Parkinson's symptoms, although none yet that reverse the effects of the disease.
4) Cognition
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There are many aspects of cognition: thinking, understanding, learning, remembering, problem solving, language and more. This guide explains what affects your thinking (e.g., age, sleep problems, medications) and what cognitive changes can happen in Parkinson's disease. It includes coping tips for both people with Parkinson's and care partners and stories that show strategies others use to manage their thinking changes.
5) Sleep
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Sleep is essential for overall health and wellbeing. Unfortunately, problems with sleep and alertness are common in Parkinson's disease (PD). It is likely that you will experience poor sleep and/or impaired daytime alertness at some point in the course of your disease — maybe you already have. These problems can have a big impact on your quality of life, as well as significant safety implications: for example, if you get sleepy while driving. There...
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About 75 percent of people with PD experience changes in speech and voice at some time during the course of the disease. These changes usually come on gradually and can vary from mild to severe.
Communication is a vital part of daily life and extends beyond speech and voice abilities. It also includes the ability to formulate your ideas into a message, understand messages and words conveyed by others, and the ability to put your ideas into words....
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People affected by Parkinson's disease (PD) - those living with Parkinson's, their family members, their friends and the healthcare professionals that care for them - are all looking for answers to questions about the disease, its symptoms and treatments. This booklet is a compilation of the most frequently asked questions that the Parkinson's Foundation receives through its Helpline.
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You may be reading this book because you or someone in your life recently received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Perhaps it was not so recently, but you are now reflecting more on what the diagnosis means for you. Everyone's PD story is different. Many people with PD vividly remember the moment they were diagnosed and view it as the beginning of a journey, a new life path. Often, they think back a few years and recognize subtle symptoms...
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Everyone experiences changes in mood over the course of any given day, week, month and year. But "mood changes" is a broad term that can mean different things to different people. This guide explains what mood changes can happen in Parkinson's disease (PD), why people with Parkinson's might experience these changes and how to treat and cope with them.
Not everyone develops every symptom of Parkinson's disease, but if you're affected, non-motor symptoms...
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Whether the Parkinson's diagnosis is new to your loved one or you have been living with Parkinson's for a long time, you have the right and responsibility to make the care partnership as productive as possible, with the least amount of stress and conflict. Preparation is key in all respects: emotional, financial and physical. We hope that the tips and tools in this workbook will help prepare you for every step of the journey.
The book complements...