Dr. Thomas Chelimsky
Mission MSA is proud to share an upcoming educational opportunity hosted by Mission MSA’s Center of Excellence, Virginia Commonwealth University Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center (VCU PMDC).
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Lewy body dementia is an umbrella term that includes two disorders — dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia. Using the “one year rule,” doctors diagnose someone with Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) if dementia and hallucinations occur a year or more after the onset of motor symptoms (or Parkinson’s disease). Doctors diagnose dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) when dementia, visual hallucinations, and motor symptoms occur concurrently or if dementia or hallucinations precede motor symptoms.
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This is a beautiful story of love, faith, and family by a daughter from southern California who took her mother to Mecca to complete an Umrah pilgrimage (a condensed version of Hajj).
Her mother was diagnosed in 2021 with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) after three years of unexplained falls, minor car accidents, dropping things, asking nonsensical questions, and speaking like a drunk.
Source: Kismet Mag
This is an essay by Xita Rubert, a Spanish novelist, who in 2024 received the Premio Herralde, the most prestigious prize for a novel in the Spanish language. She is based in New York and is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
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This is an interesting article from NextAvenue about a patient advocate, who “spent years helping others navigate health care’s maze of appointments, referrals, insurance denials and hard decisions”, suddenly became a patient herself after suffering a heart attack.
