Parkinson’s disease affects millions of people worldwide. Patient advocacy groups like the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and the Parkinson’s Action Network provide resources to patients and advocacy tools to promote more research on this devastating disease. PDF has a toolkit to empower advocates and patients to spread the word, educate themselves and others and learn more about Parkinson’s research funded by PDF.

Meanwhile, PAN is urging advocates to contact their representatives in Congress to support a bipartisan effort to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health; you can also plant a virtual tulip in honor of a loved one and make a contribution to PAN in their honor.

Survivor Margaret Tennent writes on PDF’s patient stories what it is like to live with Parkinson’s:

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