Description
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The Parkinson's Association of Ireland is a charity, based in Dublin, with branches throughout the country. Our aim is to assist those with Parkinson's, and their families and carers, health professionals, interested others, by offering support, a listening ear, and information on any aspect of living with Parkinson's.
Our office is open mornings, and now afternoons to 3pm, staffed by our Administrative Secretary, Marie Lynch, and also by volunteers. We can send you information about Parkinson's (if we don't have it to hand we will either find it for you or refer you on!), treatments, information about your rights and entitlements, exercise classes, meetings.
We offer a sympathetic listening ear. If we can help, we will.
Aims and Objectives
Our aims:
- to help and support patients and carers by developing a support network of branches throughout the country
- to make information available to patients and their families through seminars, newsletters and branch meetings on both a national and local level
- to facilitate easy access to all appropriate services for people with Parkinson's and to lobby to improve those services
- to help establish a network of PDNS, within a multidisciplinary setting, each in association with a neurologist and or a geriatrician.
- to promote and encourage research into Parkinson's.
We do this through educating the public and raising awareness of - and therefore hopefully - a greater understanding of and acceptance of - Parkinson's. |
Services
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We fundraise to help provide essential services, ultimately throughout the country. Currently our primary push is to finance the provision of Parkinson's Nurse Specialists, ideally working in association with neurologists or geriatricians, and again ideally half based within a hospital environment and half based in the community. That way, the patients have the best of both worlds. Having said that, two of the present three PDNS here are hospital based, and transforming the lives of their patients. We however would like it all!
We attempt to lobby for greater facilities, such as access to physiotherapy, speech therapy, which can transform lives by maximising function, but which is not always available.
We are aware that governments have budgets, but we feel that those with a neurological disorder are badly served, both with access to specialised care - essential with advancing progression of ithe condition - and the more modern treatment options, as well as the rehabilitatory services. |
Contact
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| Address: |
Parkinson's Association of Ireland, |
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Carmichael House, |
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North Brunswick Street, |
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Dublin 7. |
| Tel: |
01 - 872 2234 |
| Freephone: |
1 800 359 359 |
| Fax: |
01 - 873 5737 |
| Email: |
parkinsonsireland@eircom.net |
| Web: |
www.parkinsons.ie |
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