Books & Resources

(Paperback published 2001 by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

This DVD and guidebook answers important questions for newly diagnosed patients and their caregivers. Featuring inside perspective from Michael J. Fox and expert counsel by a leading neurologist and a movement disorder specialist.

Learn to handle the problems that Parkinson’s patients face
Through Parkinson’s Disease and Quality of Life, you will discover common problem areas seen in patients with Parkinson’s disease. This book explores problems that interfere with functional independence of patients and gives examples of occupational therapy intervention and treatment techniques. (Haworth Press, 2000)

John Argue has distilled information from his classes for Parkinson’s patients into a comprehensive exercise program designed to help you improve flexibility, balance, gait, and communication. Over 100 photographs illustrate the exercises, which derive from yoga and tai chi techniques and theater movement skills. Techniques in the book encompass a variety of daily activities.

This compassionate, informative, and essentially practical book will help fill the gap too often left in doctor-patient communication. Patients are often given only minimal information about their condition and its treatment, with the family left to adapt as best they can to the long-term demands of the illness.  (Demos Medical Publishing)

The second edition of Parkinson’s Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management provides a state-of-the-art review of where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we are going in treating this disease. (Demos Medical Publishing)

Whether the diagnosis is yours or that of a loved one, Parkinson’s Disease for Dummies contains everything you need to know about living with this disease. This book is an easy-to-understand, straightforward, and sometimes humorous guide that offers proven techniques for coping with daily issues, finding the right doctors, and providing care as the disease progresses.

(John Wiley & Sons, 2022)

Written by an expert team of health-care professionals-including a neurologist, a social worker, a nurse practitioner, a physical therapist, and an attorney/financial planner-this guide takes every aspect of living with chronic degenerative illness into consideration. (Fireside, 1993)

Whether you are newly diagnosed or a Parkinson’s disease veteran, whether young onset or late onset, or if you are a care partner for someone with Parkinson’s, you are likely to find something new and interesting in this book.

The Parkinson’s Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson’s disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure. In everything we do, we build on the energy, experience, and passion of our global Parkinson’s community. We are leaders in ensuring expert Parkinson’s disease care; educating and empowering the Parkinson’s community; and driving the understanding of Parkinson’s through research. As a national organization with a local presence and impact, we bring help and hope to individuals who are living with Parkinson’s. Learn more at www.parkinson.org.