MPF RESOURCES / RESEARCH

Products Available Through MPF

Click here for the MPF Order Form for the following resources:

  • Brochures:
    • Michigan Parkinson Foundation
    • Facts about Parkinson’s
    • Michigan Parkinson Foundation Support Groups
  • Critical Information form (to be used by people who are entering a hospital or other care facility). You complete the form by writing information that would be helpful for those providing care for you.
  • Physician Prescription Form: for physician to refer you to Michigan Parkinson Foundation programs.
  • Tee Shirts (with MPF insignia)
  • Fleece Jacket (with MPF insignia)
  • Videos:
    • "In Their Own Words” Produced and directed by Kathy Vander for the Michigan Parkinson Foundation, funded in part by the Michigan Department of Community Health. Professionally produced, narrated by Rich Fisher, Half hour program featuring Michigan residents with Parkinson’s disease who describe their hopes, challenges and ways to overcome living with a Chronic disease.
    • “Care for the Parkinsonian in Nursing Homes” Funded through a grant from Art Van, this 45 minute program, although dated, contains the essentials of caring for a person with PD in an extended care facility. Can be viewed in 15 minute segments to instruct staff about the complexities of dealing with PD. Commentary by people with PD and their care partners.

    Research Websites

    www.pdtrials.org
    www.clinicaltrials.gov

    Resource Websites

    NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL PARKINSON'S EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:

    National Parkinson Foundation
    www.parkinson.org
    Bob Hope Parkinson’s Research Center
    1501 NW 9th Avenue
    Miami, FL 33136-1494
    (800) 327-4545

    American Parkinson Disease Foundation (APDA)
    1250 Hylan Boulevard, Suite 4B
    Staten Island, New York 10305-1946

    Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) (advocacy group)
    www.parkinsonsaction.org

    Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF)
    www.pdf.org
    1359 Broadway, Suite 1509
    New York, NY 10018
    (800)457-6676

    Parkinson’s Society of Canada
    www.parkinson.ca
    4211 Yonge Streeet, Suite 316
    Toronto, ON M2P 2!9
    (416) 227-9700, (800) 565-3000

    OTHER MICHIGAN RESOURCES:

    Parkinson’s Association of Western Michigan (PAWN)
    (If you reside in Grand Rapids, MI area)
    260 Jefferson Ave SE, Ste 210
    Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4597
    (616) 954-8077, (800) 617-8711
    www.pawm.org

    Michigan Dementia Coalition
    www.dementiacoalition.org

    Area Agency on Aging
    www.mi-seniors.org

    YOUNG ONSET RESOURCES:

    APDA Young Parkinson’s Information and Referral Center
    Glenbrook Hospital, 2100 Pfingsten Road
    Glenview, IL 60025
    (800) 223-9776

    Young Onset Parkinson’s Association
    www.yopa.org

    PARKINSON PLUS ORGANIZATIONS:

    Essential Tremor
    International Essential Tremor Association
    www.essentialtremor.org

    Michigan Tremor Support Group
    www.tremorsupport.com

    Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Society for PSP
    Woodholme Medical Building
    1838 Greene Tree Road, Suite 515
    Baltimore, MD 21208
    (800) 457-4777, Fax: (410) 486-4283
    www.psp.org

    ADDITIONAL WEBSITE RESOURCES:

    Alzheimer's Association
    www.alzgmc.org

    CareGiving.com Helping You Help Aging Relatives
    www.caregiving.com

    Medicaid and Medicare Assistance Programs
    www.mymmap.org

    www.neurology.medscape.com/Medscape/Nurses
    www.neurologychannel.com
    www.neurosurgery.mgh.Harvard.edu
    www.nfcacares.org (National Family Caregivers Association)
    www.braintalk.org (Brain Talk Communities – Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital)
    www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/parkinsonsdisease.html
    www.wemove.org
    www.worldpdcongress.org (World Parkinson Congress)

    OTHER RESOURCES:

    Huntington's Disease Society of America, Michigan Chapter
    Sparrow Diamondale Center 4000
    N. Michigan Road
    Diamondale, MI 48821
    (517) 646-0920