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Posted with permission: Executive Solutions is looking for participants for an important paid ($75) marketing research study on Parkinson’s disease. It involves a 90-minute telephone focus group of 6 Parkinson’s patients and a 90-minute telephone focus group of 6 caregivers of Parkinson’s patients. Executive Solutions is a marketing research firm based on Long Island, New York. We have been in business over 20 years and have many Fortune 500 clients. Executive Solutions has been asked by a major pharmaceutical company to hold telephone focus groups with Parkinson’s disease patients and Parkinson’s disease caregivers in order to gain an understanding of what their lives are like. We want to find out such things as: a. how medications affect the health and quality of life for Parkinson’s patients b. how effective doctor-patient communication is c. what the general challenges are living with or caring for someone with this disease Here are the qualifications to be included in a patient group: --You have been diagnosed with and are being treated for Parkinson’s disease --You have seen your neurologist/treating physician in the past 6 months --You are taking one of the following drug regimens: levodopa (Dopar, Larodopa), a dopamine agonist or COMtan Here are the qualifications to be included in a caregiver group: --You must be caring for a patient with the above qualifications at least 30% of the time --You are not being paid by this person to care for them These interviews are taking place between March 28 and April 3. Please contact Gwen Carden if you are interested, or kindly pass this information along to someone who might be. Gwen can be contacted at: [log in to unmask] or can be called in Florida at: 772-220-1230. Executive Solutions’ website is: www.executive-solutions.com <http://www.executive-solutions.com/> . Participants are given a toll-free number to call into at the appointed time, so there’s no cost to the participant. Gwen Carden 772-220-1230 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn