When Anel B’s* father received a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, it provided some relief because it explained why he had been having so many falls.
She realised that it wasn’t just that her 82-year-old father was becoming accident-prone but, because his brain signals were not reaching his limbs, he was not able to put out a hand to stop himself falling. Earlier detection, she says, would have saved the family a lot of trauma, helped to plan the way forward, and her father would have received medication earlier...
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