300 Tips for Making Life with Parkinson's Disease Easier

This book contains tips, techniques, and shortcuts learned from personal experience and arranged in categories of daily activities for easy reference. Each chapter begins with insights and observaitons of people living with Parkinson's. Readers then learn basic time and energy conservaiton driven by three principles: alternate activity with rest, plan ahead, and use labor-saving devices and new technology There are many varied strategies readers can use to become more independent, including realistic organizational skills, working smarter, if not faster, streamlining daily activities, staying involved and in touch, and discovering local state and national resources. The book also contains tips for caregivers.