Re: Support for emotional problems of Parkinson's Disease

[Barbara Patterson <patterso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I forwarded your message to the list.  Your aunts sound wonderful.  I have
a 91-year old aunt who lives alone, out in the country, in northern
Michigan.  She enjoys her independence...she has outlived her only son
(killed in WW 2 at Dieppe) and 3 husbands.  She is beginning to forget
things and no one in our family is looking forward to the time when she
has to have continuing care.  It could also be difficult because she is a
U.S. citizen and most of her relatives are Canadian.  My mother is in a
nursing home...she's 89 and very confused...thinks she has to get
home...there are things she needs to do.  Other times, she says she wishes
she could just die.  We talk to her and bring her tea and candy or ice
cream and she's happy again.

Neither of these women has Parkinson's...just aging.  I have only known
that I have pd for a little over a year now and find it difficult, from
the reading I have done, to separate some of the symptoms of aging and
those of pd.  They sound so similar.