The next of these popular weekends is going to take place in the Radisson Blu hotel in Athlone. Booking forms available with the present issue of the PAI magazine "PARKINSON'S IRELAND", or from the office or click HERE to download. The programme for this event is going to be different! Two medical speakers Saturday morning with time for questions, will be followed in the afternoon by Ed Rice, our Special Projects Director, who promises the following:
'Ed Rice will hold an informative, entertaining and hopefully useful demonstration of what can be colourfully described as: 'Cheap Brain Stimulation'. *Your web editor has had the Deep version!
Using everything from Video, to Music to Stories to Photos and more - Ed will demonstrate simple, inexpensive and clever ways that people with Parkinson's can trigger energy and excitement in their own brains - and in the brains of those around them - on a daily basis.
The session will last for 90 minutes - but the follow up afterwards will be an ongoing project that the Parkinson's Association of Ireland are rolling out in 2010. So arrive alert, enthused and ready for something a bit different...'
- With this programme, plus dancing to the Shannonside
Jazz Band on the Friday and a C and W Band on the Saturday, places will go fast so early booking is strongly advised.
NEW -INNOVATION AWARD FROM NAI!
As part of plans for National Brain Awareness Week 2010, NAI Innovation Award Prizewinner will be announced during Brain Awareness Week. Loads of entries received, high standards.... The NAI website is at www.nai.ie
NAI plans for Brain Awareness Week include a one day conference in the Science Gallery Dublin in association with the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
Billy Cooking up a Storm! Fish in a Parcel from the Handbook!
MUHAMMAD ALI ACCEPTS LIFE PRESIDENCY AWARD FROM PAI
We thought for a while it wouldn't happen, but it did!. Muhammad Ali accepted the award from the PAI conferring on him the title of Honorary President of the PAI!
There are extracts from the Muhammad Ali film "When we were Kings" - in fact, most of it - on Youtube. The web address to one is:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_42Pk-cgA&feature=fvw - Just copy this into your address bar to watch the video segment.
World Congress on Parkinson's This prestigious
event will be held in 2010 in Scotland. More to come.
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Our popular booklet on nutrition for people with Parkinson's, with simple recipes from good wholesome ingredients, with a foreword by Una Anderson Ryan, and an introduction by well known chef Neven Maguire, can now be downloaded - click HERE.
OUR NEW ASPEN CANDLES!
Our candles are available in two sizes - click HERE for an order form!
FUNDS CRISIS IN VOLUNTARY SECTOR
Funding has been cut and donations are down - which is quite natural given the jobs crisis. Our dependence on donations is 100% and so we are appealing for same. Perhaps you know someone who is celebrating a birthday, and could perhaps ask for donations in lieu of presents? Or is someone getting married and looking for table favours - one increasingly popular one is a note saying that the happy couple have made a donation to a named charity.
OTHER FUNDRAISING IDEAS
A slow motorbike race at the Fells Point Hotel in Tralee on September 6th, 2009, yielded over €3,000 towards the cost of providing our National Helpline, with thanks to Joan Rogers for this novel fundraising idea!
Or how about skydiving - www.skydiveireland.ie, the website of Skydive Ireland, where Deirdre Prendergast organised to do a recent tandom skydive for PAI.
Or what about a table envelope collections at company events, or asking your employer to match funds for your charitable effort...
OUR QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
"Parkinsons Ireland", free to members. Click HERE for the latest edition, HEREfor the Autumn 2009 issue orHERE and HERE for other issue copies
MAKE A DONATION
We pride ourselves on our quality of service, and we depend on your
generosity - why not donate - any amount welcome and appreciated! Click HERE for more
DOWNLOADS
Some presentations made at our Information Updates are available for
download.
Medical Management of Parkinson's Dr. Fiona Molloy CLICK HERE
Depression in Parkinson's Dr. Robert Daly CLICK HERE
Future Therapies incl Stem Cells Dr. Gavin
Davy CLICK HERE
Parkinson's Treatment Prof. Michael Hutchinson CLICK HERE
Depression in Parkinson's. Dr. Richard
Cahill CLICK HERE
NEW EXERCISE CHART - Bright and
colourful, with the emphasis on flexibility, with exercises devised by Grainne McKeown of the Dublin Physiotherapy Clinic. Phone for one, or, to download a copy: CLICK HERE
NEW BOOKLET on the cognitive aspects of Parkinson's, with lots of helpful tips and tricks. Phone 1 800 359 359 for a
copy.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Our award winning patient infopack is no longer available from our office, but your pharmacist may have
one for you! Or you can download its contents HERE
EUROYAPMEET - DUBLIN 2005
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| PHOTOS | Order a CD containing the audio tapes of the EUROYAPMEET; pay just the postage.
WORLD PARKINSON CONGRESS
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| PHOTOS | CDs Order
CDs of the audio tapes of the 2006 conference from Aven's website. Cost $12 approx. per CD.
