Self-Care Day 2026: Your health in your hands
This National Self-Care Day, Fight Parkinson’s explores the key areas of self-care and offers tips on how to implement small changes in your everyday life to care for yourself. What is self-care? According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), ‘self-care’ is defined as “the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote health, prevent disease, […]
Research call-out: Improving wellbeing in women with Parkinson’s through exercise
About the Parkinson’s exercise study for women One of Fight Parkinson’s inaugural seed fund grant recipient projects is a Parkinson’s exercise study for women and they’re recruiting volunteers. The project – Improving Wellbeing in Women with Lived Experience of Parkinson’s Disease Using Community-Based Gym Exercises – seeks participants for an eight-week program to be run […]
Ask The Expert webinar series
This webinar series provides you with the opportunity to hear from, and ask questions of, experts on a variety of topics relating to symptom management, treatment and promising research. Attendence is FREE and is online via Teams. Each webinar is facilitated by Fight Parkinson’s. Thinking, memory and Parkinson’s, with Dr Luke Smith 25 Nov 2025 […]
Physical activity during COVID-19
Physical activity is increasingly shown to positively impact people with Parkinson’s, not only physically but it can improve mental health. Unfortunately, the coronavirus restrictions put a halt to group activities and classes. It’s important to try to maintain exercise routines and physical activity as much as possible. People with Parkinson’s, particularly those with more advanced […]
Designing evidence-based exercise programs for people living with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
In 2018, Dr Susan Slade, Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University, commenced a research project aimed at broadening our understanding of factors that may influence participation in exercise and physical activity by people living with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).
ParkinDance: Exploring the power of dance to slow Parkinson’s symptoms
There is growing evidence that physical activity is neuroprotective and may have the capacity to slow the symptoms of Parkinson’s.