Healthy Living

How to Be an Encouraging Companion to a Friend or Relative with Parkinson’s Disease

Offer to clean their house and bake them a meal

Ask if you can clean the house if they don’t already have someone to do it for them. No one likes to live in a mess, but shaking hands and impaired movement interferes with detailed cleaning. Do they have a favorite meal from childhood, or a specific food they often enjoy? Bake it for them as a surprise!