Advocacy

Why your advocacy is needed:

• Every nine minutes an individual is diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
• There are 60,000 new cases of Parkinson's Disease a year.
• One million individuals have lost enough dopamine cells to develop Parkinson's symptoms.
• Medication can substitute for the missing dopamine, but it is only a temporary solution.
• 25 billion dollars is an estimate of how much America pays for Parkinson's.
• Without more federal funding for research to find a cure for Parkinson's, numbers will only increase each year.

The Parkinson Association of the Carolinas is partnering with the Parkinson Advocacy Network to teach individuals in Charlotte and across the Carolinas why federal funding is important to continue the research for the cure. Our congressmen want to hear from you. It is important that you tell them why a cure is needed in your lifetime.

So what can you do? Be an Advocate. For more information on how to be an advocate call Debbie Huffman at 704-248-3722 or Rees Jenkins at 919-866-0447.