The New Parkinson's Disease Handbook: The essential guide for sufferers and carers

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Professor Harvey Sagar

The New Parkinson's Disease Handbook

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ISBN: 9780091883874

The essential guide for sufferers and carers

Professor Harvey Sagar

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Vermilion
15 April 2002

Diseases & disorders; Popular medicine & health; Coping with illness; Coping with disability

A positive and practical guide that is essential reading for all sufferers of Parkinson's Disease and their family and friends

Some people with Parkinson's Disease find they can't speak very well while others lose the ability to write or control a knife and fork. Some get treated like children while others are ignored. Many manage their disease for years and continue to live extremely fruitful and fulfilling lives. But it's always there, in the back of one's mind. How long will I keep this up? Over 120,000 people in the UK have Parkinson's Disease, and this figure is rising. It can strike very early in life, as with the actor Michael J. Fox, or much later. It is a progressive, neurological disorder, treated mainly with drug therapy but also alleviated with physical therapy and diet. Although each person with Parkinson's is different, and the ability to perform movements may differ from one day to the next, Parkinson's has a dramatic effect on a person's quality of life and also affects those around the sufferers. This is a compassionate and helpful guide to the disease and its treatments. The good news is that Parkinson's can be controlled very effectively for many years with the right treatment and care. This definitive handbook allows you to ask all the right questions and to understand the disease so that the answer to the question above is, 'as long as possible'.

By: Professor Harvey Sagar
Imprint: Vermilion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 164g
ISBN: 9780091883874
ISBN 10: 0091883873
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 April 2002
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Harvey Sagar is Professor and Head of Department of Clinical Neurology at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Consultant of Neurology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He is a member of the Council of Management and the Medical Advisory Panel of the Parkinson's Disease Society.

Reviews for The New Parkinson's Disease Handbook: The essential guide for sufferers and carers

First published in 1966, this is the book which brought Brazilian author, Jorge Amado, to worldwide attention. Gambler, womanizer and all-round rascal Vadinho drops dead whilst dancing the samba at a Bahian carnival leaving his adoring but long-suffering wife, Dona Flor, immobilized by grief and longing, and plagued by disturbingly erotic dreams. Eventually she recovers enough to remarry an upright, decent pharmacist, but soon finds her new husband wanting in the bedroom at which point the amorous Vadinho returns in spirit form to claim his conjugal rights. A glorious, rambling, magical novel - a sort of over-sexed Truly, Madly, Deeply whose humour is well served by its playful translation - Flor has 'ants in her pants', and while Vadinho is alive worries constantly about how much other 'skirt' he has in his life. (Kirkus UK)