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Online conference and expert advice for people living with Parkinson s in Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Roscommon and Donegal
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Expert advice to help improve the health and the quantity of life for people living with Parkinson s disease will be available this weekend at a virtual conference.
Thousands of people living with Parkinson’s Disease have been experiencing mental health challenges and loss of health services since the Covid pandemic began more than a year ago. Parkinson’s is a chronic and incurable neurological illness.
‘Calls to our helpline have doubled because so many medical appointments have been cancelled,’ says Parkinson’s Association of Ireland Chief Executive, Paula Gilmore,
Ted Horgan
A Co. Cork farmer with Parkinson’s disease is upbeat about living with the fastest-growing neurological disease worldwide, despite having to change from suckler farming to a calf-to-beef enterprise because of the condition.
“Before being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease I was a suckler farmer but due to the physical demands of suckling, eight years after diagnosis I reluctantly switched to a calf-to-beef enterprise on my 50ac holding, located at Riverstick, between Cork Airport and Kinsale in south Cork,” said Ted Horgan.
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominantly dopamine producing neurons in a specific area of the brain, the substantia nigra. The cause remains largely unknown.
Online conference and expert advice for people living with Parkinson s in Kilkenny
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Expert advice to help improve the health and the quantity of life for people living with Parkinson s disease will be available this weekend at a virtual conference.
Thousands of people living with Parkinson’s Disease have been experiencing mental health challenges and loss of health services since the Covid pandemic began more than a year ago. Parkinson’s is a chronic and incurable neurological illness.
‘Calls to our helpline have doubled because so many medical appointments have been cancelled,’ says Parkinson’s Association of Ireland Chief Executive, Paula Gilmore,