Resources

Index of Resources

• Advancing Stages
• Awareness
• Caregiving and Family
• Daily Living
• Legal Series
• Mental and Cognitive Health
• Motor Symptoms
• Newly Diagnosed
• Non-motor Symptoms
• Self-Management
• Treatment/Medication
• Young Onset Parkinson's disease (YOPD)
• Video and Event Presentations
• World Parkinson Congress

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• Progression of PD [pamphlet]
• Palliative Care for Parkinson's [view video] 
• Advanced Parkinson's [helpsheet]

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Posters

• Dan [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Hilary [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Hope [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Jim [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Richard [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Val [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Viola [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]
• Wayne & Elaine [download 8.5" x 11" PDF poster]

Videos

• Hilary [YouTube video]
• Richard [YouTube video]
• Wayne & Elaine [YouTube video]

Read more about our Parkinson's Awareness Month campaign, This is Parkinson's Disease

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• A Comprehensive Guide for Parkinson's Caregivers [booklet]
• A Family Affair: Talking to Children about PD [helpsheet]
• Asking for and Accepting Your Own Support [read more]
• Caring for Someone with Parkinson's [brochure]
• Caring in the Family [helpsheet]
• Carepartner Connect – Maintaining sexual intimacy [view video]
• Carepartner Connect – Managing Health Care Transitions [view video]
• Carepartner Connect – Journeying Through Grief and Loss [view video]
• Grieving and Loss [helpsheet]
• Never Giving Up | Kelly Jablonski [view video]
• Self-Care for Parkinson's Caregivers – Part 1 [view video]
• Self-Care for Parkinson's Caregivers – Part 2 [view video]
• Talking about Abuse [helpsheet]
• What is Parkinson's Disease: Information for Teens about PD [helpsheet]

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• Assistive Devices, Home Adaptations and Funding [helpsheet]
• Bathroom Safety [helpsheet]
• Cannabis and Parkinson's [helpsheet]
• Communication and Swallowing [booklet]
• Dental Care [helpsheet]
• Dressing [helpsheet]
• Driving [helpsheet]
• Enhancing Communication [helpsheet]
• Exercises for People with PD [helpsheet]
• In-home Safety Check [helpsheet]
• Living Alone with PD [helpsheet]
• Nutrition [helpsheet]
• Sexual Intimacy and Parkinson's [helpsheet]
• Stay on Your Feet [booklet]
• Talking to Your Healthcare Professionals [helpsheet]
• Travelling with PD [helpsheet]
• What is Parkinson's Disease? [brochure]

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• Disclosing Parkinson's to Employers [pamphlet]
• Disability Tax Credit [helpsheet]
• Duty to Accommodate & Disability Insurance [helpsheet]
• Estate Planning and Trusts [pamphlet]
• Healthcare Decision Making [helpsheet]
• Leaving Your Legacy [brochure]
• Making Changes in the Workplace to Adapt to Parkinson's [pamphlet]
• Pension Plan Issues [pamphlet]
• Power of Attorney [pamphlet]
• Representation Agreements [pamphlet]
• Tax Tips for People with PD [helpsheet]
• Wills & Estate Webinar | Mary-Jane Wilson [view video]

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• Apathy [helpsheet]
• Cognitive Health [helpsheet]
• Dementia [helpsheet]
• Dementia and Reactive Behaviours [helpsheet]
• Dementia and Communication Challenges [helpsheet]
• Depression and Anxiety [helpsheet]
• Grief and Loss [helpsheet]
• Lewy Body Dementia [helpsheet]

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• Balance and Falling [helpsheet]
• Bowel Management Program [helpsheet]
• Communication and Swallowing [booklet]
• Dystonia [helpsheet]
• Freezing [helpsheet]
• Stiffness and Slowness [helpsheet]
• Swallowing [helpsheet]
• Tremor [helpsheet]
• Vision [helpsheet]
• Voice [helpsheet]
• Walking [helpsheet]

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• Adjusting to a New Diagnosis | Courtney Doherty, RCC [view video]
• New Diagnosis Day – November 2015 [videos]
• Our Experience with Parkinson's [view video]
• Understanding and Moving Forward [booklet]
• What is Parkinson's Disease? [brochure]
• What is Parkinson's Disease? | Dr. Daryl Wile, FRCPC [view video]
• You Are Not Alone [brochure]

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• A Guide to the Non-Motor Symptoms of PD: for Patients [booklet]
• Apathy [helpsheet]
• Bladder Dysfunction [helpsheet]
• Depression and Anxiety [helpsheet]
• Non-Medical Management of Low Blood Pressure [helpsheet]
• Skin Changes [helpsheet]
• Sleep and Fatigue [helpsheet]
• Sleep in PD | Claire Hinnell [download pdf]

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• Talking to Your Healthcare Professionals [helpsheet]
• Your Healthcare Team and How to Access it [helpsheet]
• Preparing for a Medical Appointment [helpsheet]
• Comprehensive Care Plan Checklist (for tracking symptoms) [helpsheet]
• Aware in Care: Contents of Kits [helpsheet]

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• Aware in Care: Contents of Kits [helpsheet]
  • Hospital action plan [download here]
  • Medical alert card [download here]
  • Medication form [download here]
  • PD fact sheet [download here]
  • “I have PD” reminder slips [download here]
  • "I have PD" poster [download here]
• Deep Brain Stimulation [helpsheet]
• Dyskinesia [helpsheet]
• Exercise and Parkinson's | Naomi Casiro [view video]
• Food for Thought: Diet & Nutrition in PD | Dr. Laurie Mischley, ND, PhD, MPH [view video]
• Hospitalization and Parkinson's Disease [brochure]
• Levodopa, Protein and Medication [helpsheet]
• Nutrition [helpsheet]
• PD Medication: What you Need to Know [helpsheet]
• Pharmacists Clinic Webinar [view video]
• Physical Activity [helpsheet]
• Recreation therapy [helpsheet]
• Treatment [helpsheet]
• The Nuts and Bolts of Parkinson's Disease Management | Dr. J. Eric Ahlskog, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN [view video]
• Your Healthcare Team and How to Access it [helpsheet]

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• Advice for the Newly Diagnosed from Individuals Currently Living with YOPD [booklet]
• Intimacy and Sexual Health [view video]
• Parkinson's Chair Yoga [view video]
• Parkinson's Disease Potpourri [view video]
• Young Onset Parkinson's Disease [helpsheet]
• Young Onset Parkinson's Disease Webinar Series [view videos]

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• Advocacy is Education: Developing Support for a Provincial Parkinson's Strategy in British Columbia – WPC Abstract Poster [view poster]
• Communication & Swallow Workshop – WPC Abstract Poster [view poster]
• This is Parkinson's Disease – WPC Abstract Poster [view poster]

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2018

Annual General Meeting

• Parkinson Disease and PPRC Update | Dr. Martin J. McKeown [view video]

Community Talks

• Medication Management | Dr. Jonathan Squires, FRCPC [view slides]

Regional Conferences

• Communication is Connection | Sue Decker, RSLP [view slides]
• Emergency Planning | Karen Martin [view slides]
• Autonomic and Cognitive Changes | Nancy Polyhronopoulos [view video]
• Speech and Swallowing | Jamie Russell [view video]
• Balance and Falls | Gina Fernandez [view video]

Time Out for Carepartners Workshops

• Self-Care for Parkinson's Carepartners & Managing Non-Motor Symptoms | Kaitlyn Roland, PhD [view slides]
• Planning for the Future | Wendy Johnstone [view slides]
• Three Dimensions of Caregiving | Jolyon Hallows [download pdf]

Webinars

• Duty to Accommodate and Disability Insurance | Eleni Kassaris [view video] [download pdf]
• Vision Issues in Parkinson's | Dr. Jason Barton, FRCPC [view video]
• Wills & Estate Webinar | Mary-Jane Wilson [view video]
• How to Cope as a Family Caregiver | Eleanor Silverberg, MSW [view video]
• Naturopathic Medicine Research Updates Webinar | Laurie Mischley, ND [view video]
• Occupational Therapy - Live Life to the Fullest! | Gina Fernandez [view video] [download pdf]
• Recreational Therapy - What the Rec? [view video] [download pdf]
• Chiropractic Medicine for Parkinson's  [view video] [download pdf]
• Examining Exercise in Parkinson's Disease [view video] [download pdf]
• How to Stay Safe and in Your Home for Longer | Dr. Roger Wong, FRCPC [view video] [download pdf]
• Palliative Care for Parkinson's | Kathleen Yue [view video] [helpsheet]

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2017 

Moving Forward, Together Conference

• Speaker presentations [view videos]
  • Genetics and Environment | Dr. Beate Ritz [view video]
  • Apathy and Non-Motor Symptoms | Dr. Benzi Kluger [view video]
  • Autonomic Dysfunction | Dr. Christopher Mathias [view video] 
  • Advanced Symptoms | Dr. Martin McKeown [view video]
  • Cannabis Research | Dr. Benzi Kluger [view video]
  • Pain in Parkinson's | Dr. Daryl Wile [view video]

Parkinson's Awareness Month

• This is Parkinson's – Hilary [view video]
• This is Parkinson's – Richard [view video]
• This is Parkinson's – Wayne & Elaine [view video]

Annual General Meeting

• Research Panelists from UBC [view videos]
  • Exercise Research [view video]
  • From Genetics to Therapeutics [view video]
  • The Microbiome in Parkinson's [view video]

Webinars

• Impulse Control Disorders and Parkinson's | Dr. Catharine Winstanley [view video]
• Speech Language Therapy for People with Parkinson's | Barbara Lang, RSLP [view video]
• Deep Brain Stimulation for People with Parkinson's | Mini Sandhu, RN & Nancy Polyhronopoulos, RN [view video]

Newly Diagnosed Webinar Series [view videos]

• Week 1 - What is Parkinson's disease | Dr. Wile, FRCPC [download pdf]
• Week 2 - Adjusting to a Diagnosis | Courtney Doherty, RCC [download pdf]
• Week 3 - What I Wish I Knew [download pdf]
• Week 4 - Parkinson's & Exercise | Naomi Casiro [download pdf]

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2016

Webinars

• Carepartner Connect – Maintaining sexual intimacy [view video]
• Carepartner Connect – Managing Health Care Transitions [view video]
• Carepartner Connect – Regaining Autonomy [view video]
• RoadSafetyBC Driving and Parkinson's Webinar [view video]
• Balance Training Research Webinar [view video]
• Elder Abuse Webinar [view video]
• UBC Pharmacists Clinic Webinar [view video]
• Young Onset Parkinson's Disease (YOPD) Webinar Series [view videos]

Annual General Meeting

• The Nuts and Bolts of Parkinson's Disease Management | Dr. J. Eric Ahlskog, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN [view video]

Prince George Regional Conference

• Parkinson's Disease in 60 Minutes | Dr. Claire Hinnell, FRCPC [download pdf]
• Sleep in PD | Dr. Claire Hinnell, FRCPC [download pdf]

Nanaimo Regional Conference

• The Benefits of Mindful Living | Cindy Fisher, MA, RCC [view video]
• Nutrition and You | Elietha Bocskei, MSc, RD [view video]
• Parkinson's Overview | Dr. Martin McKeown, FRCPC [view video]
• The Neurological Effects of Exercise | Matthew Sacheli, PhD [view video]

Victoria Regional Conference [view all videos]

• Parkinson's Overview | Dr. Silke Cresswell, FRCPC [view video]
• The Benefits of Mindful Living | Michelle Fraleigh, MBA, MA, CCC, RCC [view video]
• Sleep and Parkinson's | Dr. Jason Valerio, FRCPC [view video]
• Food for Thought: Diet & Nutrition in PD | Dr. Laurie Mischley, ND, PhD, MPH [view video]

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2015
New Diagnosis Day

• Exercise and Parkinson's | Naomi Casiro [view video]
• What is Parkinson's Disease? | Dr. Daryl Wile,  FRCPC [view video]
• Adjusting to a New Diagnosis | Courtney Doherty, RCC [view video]
• Our Experience with Parkinson's [view video]

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2014
Young Onset Conference

• Intimacy and Sexual Health [view video]
• Yoga Dopa [view video]
• Parkinson's Chair Yoga [view video]
• Parkinson's Disease Potpourri [view video]

Time Out for Caregivers, Burnaby

• Self-Care for Parkinson's Caregivers – Part 1 [view video]
• Self-Care for Parkinson's Caregivers – Part 2 [view video]
• Never Giving Up | Kelly Jablonski [view video]

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