Year: 2023

We know a spell of negative thoughts can occur in any person’s life, but a tendency towards negative thinking is actually part of the symptom menu that gets triggered with Parkinson’s disease. Looking back, I can identify negative thought patterns in Andy that presented a […]

Andy loved being part of the team. His life was productive and had purpose as long as we found ways to work around his Parkinson’s limitations. We did this by paying close attention and using timing and the tools we had, correctly. Andy’s experience with […]

For most people, swallowing seems like one of those automatic parts of life, like your heart beating  or breathing. Parkinson’s compromises the automatic part. A patient can have a hard time controlling their saliva in the ways healthy people are able to and instead, a […]

The cognitive danger Andy lives with is not an inability to participate but rather an inability to keep up. In life, we all have our pace of moving, thinking and doing. To get along in the world we match ourselves to other’s paces and rhythms. […]