Mental Health

  Join us for a conversation about staying connected to community while living with PD. We will talk about building a support network if you live alone, avoiding loneliness and isolation no matter your living arrangements, how to ask for and receive help when you need it, how to know when you need more support, and more. Clinical neuropsychologist Jeffrey Wertheimer, PhD, ABPP-CN, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, is our speaker for this event. REGISTER NOW to join us! **Can't make this date? Register to receive a link to the recording.** About our speaker: Dr. Wertheimer is the Chief of Psychology and Neuropsychology, and the Director of Clinical Training in Neuropsychology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) and the California Rehabilitation Institute (Cal Rehab). He is a board-certified neuropsychologist with a focus in neuropsychological and psychological assessment and psychotherapy and has developed innovative programming for cognitive and psychological resilience for diverse medical populations. Dr. Wertheimer's research interests include movement disorders (the assessment of the cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms of Parkinson’s disease), cognitive and functional outcomes in individuals who have sustained traumatic brain injury, psychological adjustment and resilience with chronic illness, and inter-professional collaboration.    

This July members of the international PD community will gather in Spain, for the 6th World Parkinson Congress (WPC). Join us for a discussion among local community members who were attending the Congress. They’ll share their takeaways from the event and will take your questions.  **Can't make this date? Register to receive a link to the recording.** About our panelists: John Ball has lived with PD for 50 years. Edna Ball's experience with PD spans even longer - 61 years. She is John’s care partner, and cared for her late mother who lived with PD for 37 years. For 20 years, John and Edna Co-Chaired Team Parkinson, raising over $3 million in support of PD research through the Los Angeles Marathon. John has attended every WPC, and this will be Edna’s fourth Congress. Travis Robinson was diagnosed with Young Onset PD in 2014. Travis has been using photography to capture and share aspects of his life for over 20 years, and is taking his “Faces of Parkinson’s” photographic project to the WPC. Travis is also a co-host, with Judy Yaras, of the I’m Not Dead Yet! podcast, which focuses on life with PD. After Judy Yaras’s husband Sandy was diagnosed […]