Living with PD

What You Should Know

The Practical & The Personal 

The wide range of symptoms that can be associated with PD lead people to experience varying degrees of change in their personal, family, and work lives.  In general, young people who are living with Parkinson's disease may find that PD requires them to change certain aspects of their life or lifestyle over time.  However, PD is a typically a disease that progresses slowly so these changes are not necessarily drastic ones and they do not ususally occur all at once. 
 
The fear of life changing may be replaced for some period of time by a refusal to accept the possibility of change.  PD say that they don't want to In this section you will find practical information about many different situations and circumstances you may encounter in order to make change, when it occurs, easier for everyone involved to manage.    

A diagnosis of YOPD usually comes as quite a shock, even if you or those around you have suspected it for some time.  For most people, the question of how life will change takes center stage.  Even when we don't see our lives as perfect,