Caregivers need frequent breaks from their responsibilities. Many caregivers balance work, family, community, and church activities. Adult day care is fast becoming a popular and valuable service.
This article from Arizona, discusses a company that provides adult day care services in the Phoenix area.
Pesticides
This USA Today article overviews a Harvard-led study that found that frequent contact with pesticides increases risk of developing PD. Medical professionals within the neurology community have long suspected pesticides as a catalyst of Parkinson's disease.
Too Much Confidence Promising a Cure on a Time line?
This Australian online publication interviewed an MIT scientist who claims Harvard is telling some potential stem cell donors that the time line for a PD cure is 10 years. Right now no sources confirm his claim. My Parkinson's Info looks forward to a cure for Parkinson's disease. However, stem cell treatments for PD are still ideas, and not realities.
In the war against PD, there isn't enough information for anyone to put together a time table for a cure. We would hate to see you make medication and treatment decisions, based on a time line that may be too optimistic.
