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Author: Alberto J. Espay

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Published: 2022-04

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780578373881

The PD Companion, a lifestyle manual for living with Parkinson's disease (PD), is filled with salient insights helpful for anyone with PD, their care partners, and families, and it comes packed with love. The book is not overly long, yet it overflows with important information. The clinical details within have been reviewed by the well-respected Parkinson's researcher Dr. Alberto Espay of the Gardner Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders at the University of Cincinnati. This is not a guide designed to simply list the enumerable written facts about PD. Rather, it is filled with layperson-friendly creative drawings, tables, and schematics designed to improve readers' health literacy by contextually illustrating the many key-points about the disorder, highlighting how to take care of oneself medically. The manner of information presentation creates reading as easy as it can get when describing a disorder like PD, a disease where no 2 people's experience of it are exactly alike. With the depth of illustrations and description provided throughout comes clarity and respective priorities for the person living with PD, their care partner(s) and family members to absorb and refer back to as the need arises. The PD Companion contains key sections devoted to living well with PD for the person with the disorder, care partner(s), family, friends, and colleagues. Much of it is practical advice portrayed logically, including crucial recommendations. Most importantly, all the innumerable "pearls" to be discovered within are presented with care, compassion, and concern. Several unique "bonus" sections in PD Companion serve to round out its long-term utility, such as an appended quick reference guide to the many PD-related abbreviations and acronyms, an ever-growing list which can be challenging to keep track of. Equally important is the exhaustive collection of PD terms and vocabulary with corresponding easy-to-grasp definitions. This glossary of "all things Parkinson's", also includes respective page numbers so readers can actually locate the word or phrase in context within the book. Readers will want to keep this reference handy as a consultative resource, and perhaps even provide a "share copy" for interested relations in their life.