Choosing Your Care Team and Gender Disparities in Research and Care

In this video, six women from the Davis Phinney Foundation’s women and Parkinson’s panel discuss advocacy, choosing your care team, and gender disparities in research and care.
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[@splashesin8]

This did make me think of the woman I knew with Parkinson's when I was a little kid and would talk with her about it because I suspected when I was around 10, that it may be why I was shaking, from other adults I knew who were shaky. However this woman was not, shaky, which surprised me when she told me she had parkinson's. I continued to know her and have many conversations with her over the years, mostly about things not Parkinson related. Although sometimes it came up, and she had talked about maybe three times on why at some point when she had been younger, after many discussions with her brother, who was a medical doctor, she had decided to stop

[@pampressel4115]

Older women would be good for the panel