Welcome to Parkinson Society Canada’s online community. Whether this is your first time on our website or you visit on a regular basis, we hope you will find helpful information, empowering ideas, motivational inspiration and numerous reasons for hope.

We begin this year with renewed vigour and determination to deliver on our commitments of:

• offering programs and services that make a meaningful difference;
• funding research that provides knowledge and improves individual quality of life today while the global quest for a cure for Parkinson’s disease continues;
• advocating on behalf of people with Parkinson’s to keep Parkinson’s disease front and centre in the minds and agendas of policy makers;
• fostering awareness and understanding of Parkinson’s disease and related issues;
• creating opportunities for significant funding to enable the work we do

People with Parkinson’s are the focus of everything we do. No matter where in Canada you live we are ready to help.

Over the next few months, watch for our new Research Highlights 2011-2012 publication, profiling currently-funded researchers and their projects looking into such areas as the causes and complications of Parkinson’s, biomarkers, neuroprotection and cognitive impairment.

During the April Parkinson Awareness Month, we will feature stories of people with Parkinson’s and health professionals talking about the benefits of exercise and physical activity in managing Parkinson’s symptoms. We will also have new physical activity guidelines to help people with Parkinson’s stay active.
Later in spring, we will launch a set of clinical guidelines designed to assist health professionals in the diagnosis, management and treatment of Parkinson’s.

We invite you to take time to peruse our website, subscribe to e-Parkinson Post, follow us on Twitter (@ParkinsonCanada) or Facebook, send an e-mail, give us a call, or send a letter. We want to hear from you. The more we learn from you, the better we can target our education materials, resources, national research program and advocacy efforts to meet your needs.

Parkinson Society Canada will host the third World Parkinson Congress in Montreal from October 1-4, 2013. We look forward to seeing you in Montreal. Mark your calendars now.