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Virginia, I am the director of the Houston Area Parkinson Society. In my job I encounter MANY families with the problem your parents have. There are very good but little known programs within all of the major pharmaceuticals to provide free meds to patients who meet financial guidelines set by each company. The way it works is that the doctor (read nurse) calls the 800 number of the company and asks for the "Indigent Patient" (their wording not mine!) program. The company sends the doctor their forms. Half of the form is filled out by the family having to do with their financial status and the rest is done by the doctor stating diagnosis etc. Then it is sent back to the drug company with a three or six month prescription (varies by company). If the patient qualifies, the company will send the medicine to the doctor to give to the patient. This can continue for life as long as the paperwork is repeated half way through each period and the patient continues to qualify. If your doctor does not know about these plans, he can get a list free from - Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, 1100 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20005 or 1-800-PMA-INFO. More questions? You can e mail me or call 1-713-626-7114 between 9:30 and about 4:00 on weekdays. Good luck. Two of the drugs your father is taking are by DuPont and Sandoz, I don't recognize Maxzide or Relaphen. Both DuPont (sinemet) and Sandoz (eldepryl) have very good programs and have helped a lot of our people.