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 […]
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.