04/08/2024
April is 🌷🧚‍♀️
•It’s estimated that there are 1m people living with Parkinson’s in the US averaging approximately 90,000 new diagnoses each year. And is the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s.
•It costs the US $58 billion dollars a year in direct and indirect costs.
•There are more than 125,000 military veterans living with Parkinson’s.
•Medications and therapies for patients can run $7-9,000 per year - or more.
•There is no cure. And there is no treatment that stops this cruel disease in its tracks.
You can make a difference today by giving to the foundation for more research, becoming a policy advocate, and by joining the studies all around the world. Together, we can end it.
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research