Living Well with Parkinson's
The long-awaited update to the definitive guide to successfully living with Parkinson's disease
Known for its upbeat, informative, and inspirational guidance, Living Well with Parkinson's includes a wealth of up-to-date medical information for Parkinson's sufferers, who number over 1 million in the U.S. alone. Combined with the author's poignant personal account of her own struggles with the disease, this new edition features coverage of pallidotomy (a new surgical technique), the dramatic implications of recent genetic research, and new drugs and therapies. The book also includes tips on dealing with social services and elder law, maintaining a positive attitude, handling issues with spouses and children, and finding support groups.
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Book details
- Author
- Glenna Wotton Atwood, Lila Green Hunnewell, Roxanne Moore Saucier
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 240
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Disability
- Topics
- Parkinson's disease · nervous system diseases · managing chronic illness · Parkinson's treatments · exercise and nutrition · pallidotomy · disability and daily living · positive attitude and wellness
- ISBN-13
- 9780471282235 (Paperback)9781630261290 (Hardcover)
About the author
GLENNA WOTTON ATWOOD was a home economics teacher from Maine who lived with Parkinson’s disease for over two decades and drew on that experience to write Living Well with Parkinson’s, co-authored with Lila Green Hunnewell and Roxanne Moore Saucier, with a foreword by neurologist Robert G. Feldman, M.D.
Atwood taught in Houlton, Hermon, and Hampden, Maine, across a distinguished career in education. Living Well with Parkinson’s was first published in 1991 and revised in a second edition in 2005.
Atwood died on November 25, 1998, in Bangor, Maine.