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Dr. Johnna Devoto helps caregivers and PWPs find strategies for maintaining quality of life and live well with Parkinson’s disease. In this talk from our PD Edu series, Dr. Devoto helps caregivers create a plan for moving forward based on cognitive changes and mood disorders that may come into play down the road as you navigate a life with PD.
In late 1998 a friend was visiting at my home when my husband came home from work. She asked me if he had had a stroke as he seemed to be pulling his left leg forward more than stepping by leading with his knee. Several months earlier he had started a new job which required him to drive back and forth weekly between northern Ohio to be with our daughter and me on weekends and to Cincinnati where he worked Monday through Friday. I hadn’t noticed his altered gait.
Growing up in a wonderful, loving and caring family as the eldest of three siblings (brother Dave, and sister Becky) my parents instilled in us the importance of "being kind to everyone you meet because you never know what battles people are fighting" along with love, determination, goal-setting, religious beliefs and responsibility to name a few.
