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This Month's Featured Education
Whether your involvement with Parkinson’s dates from twenty years ago or from yesterday, you will draw benefit from this month’s video from the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases in Gainesville, titled Intro to Parkinson’s Disease Management. In this comprehensive presentation, Dr. Matthew Remz, Movement Disorders Fellow at the University of Florida, discusses optimal management of Parkinson’s symptoms, stressing the importance of a customized approach for each individual living with the disease.
April 18 Meeting
Cross Keys Village is offering its Parkinson’s Thursday education and support groups, in the Encore Room (Harmony Ridge, 620 Harmony Drive, New Oxford PA), on the third Thursday of each month. The goal of the group is to empower people with Parkinson’s, care partners, family and friends by offering education on specific topics, followed by peer support. Parkinson’s Thursday is open to all at no cost, and no registration is required. The format of each meeting is as follows:
- 1:00-2:00pm – Educational seminar on a specific topic
- 2:00-2:15pm – Break
- 2:15-3:15pm – Peer support
Our April 18 virtual guest is Mary Beth Skilton, RN, Director of Virtual Care with Synapticure. Her presentation is titled Synapticure: Supporting your Journey with Movement Disease. Learn about an innovative approach to telehealth that is changing neurodegenerative disease care. Originally founded to care for patients with ALS, Synapticure is expanding to address other neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s.
Upcoming: May 16 – Dr. Abigail Lawler, Neurologist, Movement Disorder Specialist with Inova Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center.
Living with Parkinson's
Parkinson’s Disease is a progressive motor system disorder that interferes with activities of daily living. There is no cure but rapid scientific progress is leading to greater understanding and new Parkinson’s medications, treatment and technology. Our goal on this page is to empower people with Parkinson’s – at Cross Keys Village and in the greater community – and their care partners, by offering cutting-edge PD management information.
In this short PBS interview titled Why Women With Parkinson’s Are Misdiagnosed, Dr. Soania Mathur, Parkinson’s disease advocate and family physician, talks about symptoms in women presenting differently than in men and how these differences can lead to late or wrong diagnoses.