Marc Sherman is a 54 year old attorney who lives in Forrest Hills, NY. He describes himself as I “someone who loved childhood, and in a sense, never really left it.” Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006 (an event that Marc says “should have caused me to leave childhood and become an adult,” Marc Sherman puts…
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Building Your Parkinson’s Care Team: Key Roles and Responsibilities
A recent post on the blog of the National Parkinson’s Foundation asks a provocative question: Will involving a neurologist in the care of a Parkinson’s disease patient makes a difference in outcome? In her post on the NPF blog entitled “The Case for All Parkinson’s Disease Patients to be Co-managed by a Primary Care-Neurologist Team,” Tennessee-based…
Parkinson’s Patients and Caregivers Organizational Tips
Whether you’re a caregiver, family member, or patient — the process of keeping organized in the midst of any kind of medical ordeal is challenging to say the least. Whether someone’s just been diagnosed with an illness, is in the midst of treatment, or has an ongoing ‘adventure’ living with a chronic condition– it’s difficult,…