Here we are, four months into social distancing and our world is still largely confined to our house. At times, it feels like the house i...

Dad, Lew, and I were sitting at the card table yesterday putting together our third jigsaw puzzle. It is a great activity for Dad. He get...

I wish I could say, “Beam me up Scotty,” and be rid of this coronavirus laden planet! I’m tired of it. I’m sure you are tired of it too. ...

I woke up today and thought, “I have nothing to do today.” It has been 12 days since our family has been “social distancing”. A little lo...

I don’t know about you, but this COVID 19 coronavirus has me concerned. My 85-year-old father with PD and a long history of coronary arte...

What a way to start, right? But I might as well lay it out there. Contrary to popular opinion, yes, I get annoyed. (Ok, my husband just b...

The relatives have all gone home, the tree is down, the wreaths are off the front door and windows and we’ve mostly survived the crazy, w...

My husband and I were wrapping Christmas gifts last night. I’m not sure we had the whole holiday spirit concept in proper focus as we moa...

All of us who are caregivers have been out in public, at the grocery store, in a restaurant, at boxing, when our loved one with Parkinson...

In the October/November 2019 issue of AARP The Magazine, the AARP National Volunteer President, Catherine Alicia Georges, has an article ...

Dad and I attended our usual PD support group this past Thursday. There was a guest speaker, a physical therapist who works with PD patie...

It dawned on me the other day that, as a caregiver, I needed an attitude adjustment. I can’t change this abominable disease. I can’t chan...

Before I was a caregiver for my Dad, I was a caregiver for my Mom. She had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with hypersensitivity pneumoniti...

The Parkinson's Foundation provides a wonderful library of resources to help us all live better with Parkinson's Disease, including this ...

As a caregiver, do you ever feel like you have “caught” PD? The other day I was carrying dishes and I was convinced my hand was shaking. ...

Well…I am woefully late with this article! So, we will call this June/July’s thoughts. I typically sit down to write with something speci...

Once again, hello. I was trying to decide what to focus on this month. I realized I have a lot of articles, books, YouTube videos, pamphl...

Hi once again, remember me? Annette, daughter and live-in caregiver to my father, Lloyd, a Parkinson’s fighter since June of 2018. It has...

I am a daughter and caregiver to my father, a Parkinson’s fighter. He is 84 and doing remarkably well. Dad came to live with me and my hu...