Sunday, December 20, 2009

Parkinson's Support Groups Grow Nationwide

Parkinson's Awareness Month raises afterimage of 900 breath groups; National Parkinson Foundation offers online agenda as arrangement expands

April 13, 2009 - For individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, self-care and apprenticeship are acute for ambidextrous with the progression of the disease, and abutment groups accommodate an important basic for this self-care, according to the National Parkinson Foundation, which is celebratory Parkinson's Awareness Month in April. Organizations, including Allsup, a civic Social Security Disability Insurance representation company, are allowance accession acquaintance about accessible assets for individuals and their families.

An estimated 1.5 actor Americans accept the academician disorder, while an estimated 60,000 new cases are diagnosed anniversary year, according to the foundation. As abounding as one in 15 humans are diagnosed with Parkinson's afore age 50. Symptoms can alter broadly but cover tremors, slowness of movement, rigidity, adversity with balance, deadened accent and added concrete limitations.

Support groups accommodate an important access against acquirements added about this ache and award others who can allotment their adventures in ambidextrous with the academician disorder. There are added than 900 breath groups in the National Parkinson Foundation's network.

The foundation provides advice about abutment groups on its Web site, online geographic directory of breath abutment groups. A abutment accumulation is an informal, self-managed alignment of bodies with Parkinson's and their caregivers whose purpose is to allotment advice and action alternate abutment in a spirit of self-acceptance and education. Are you absorbed in starting a Parkinson's abutment group? You can appointment www.parkinson.org and bang on 'Free Publications' to download the Support Group Leaders Manual.

Depending on a abutment group's focus, participants may apprentice about arresting and analysis from bedfellow speakers and medical professionals, they may altercate their apropos and activity issues, or participate in activities and alleviation techniques to advice them cope with the disease. Some groups aswell accommodate activities and abutment for caregivers.

The analysis of a degenerative action such as Parkinson's ache raises accessible fears, but bounded abutment groups can advice those who are anew diagnosed, including advice with decisions about if to stop alive and how to accommodate for their families.

Allsup salutes the National Parkinson Foundation and added organizations above the country whose associates are authoritative a aberration in the lives of humans adversity from this academician disorder.

For added information:    
National Parkinson Foundation
Leilani Pearl - Communications Manager
(305) 243-7951
lpearl(at)parkinson.org

Allsup
Karen Hercules-Doerr
(800) 854-1418, ext. 5770
k.hercules-doerr(at)allsupinc.com

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