As part of World Parkinson’s awareness week, Ted talks to Caroline Allen of Agriland and tells how living with Parkinson’s shifted his focus from one area of farming to another. Click here to get the full story.
On Tuesday 21st February, we had a very successful launch of the CH04 Patients Deserve Better campaign calling for specialist neurorehabilitation teams for people living in our area. Ivan and Eleanor represented CPA on the call and gave a very clear message of the significance of having such a team in Cork/Kerry to support people…
CPA is renowned for the number of Parkinson’s Related research projects we get involved with.
On March 9th, Ivan, Eleanor, Tony from CPA and Mags from NAI had a 30-minute meeting with Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health, who understood the need for a neuro-rehabilitation team in CUH and showed he was committed to making it happen but wasn’t able to give us a timeline. We then moved into the AV…
The group met in person for the first time since the start of Covid in the Viaduct Inn. We will continue to meet there every Tuesday at 6.30 until further notice. Come and join us and enjoy an evening of song and company.
We have sent this letter to the Minister for Health and our local TDs. Please help us to get PD patients moved higher up the list for vaccination by signing and circulating our e-petition to your family, friends and anyone who can support us. The more signatures we get the stronger our voice will be….
Tony Wilkinson won the West Cork Volunteer of the Year award for 2022. Tony said it was a very humbling experience to be nominated by members for this award which allows us to promote and raise awareness of Parkinson’s in the community. Tony has been selected for the National award in the Health and Wellbeing…
