What happens when you want to cross a road but your feet freeze suddenly? Or when you go shopping and can't get the money out of your purse or wallet because your hands are shaking so violently? People with Parkinson's experience these difficulties frequently and going shopping and crossing a road is never easy.
Parkinson's symptoms are different in everyone: they can vary from day-to-day, hour-to-hour, even minute-to minute. Awareness needs to be raised about how Parkinson's progresses, what medicinal side-effects are experienced and what it is really like. Decision makers and the general public need to understand the challenges of Parkinson's and its impact on daily life.
The EPDA, through their Campaign and Awareness Kit, provides hard facts on Parkinson's, including cost of treatment and medication, when to begin, and the different treatment strategies.
The EPDA are targeting decision makers - both national and European - scientists and researchers, healthcare professionals, people with Parkinson's, family members and the general public to increase understanding that anybody can get Parkinson's, that it is treatable and that it costs far more not to give the right treatment than to give it.
