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Good on you Mary Yost. You are indeed a mover and shaker in both senses. The idea of a PD village must be kept alive for all of us and our care givers - and especially for those with no caregivers. As you said we can help each other in the proper setting - a village or colony or commune. We should look into FDR's Hot Springs. Polio is not an issue now, but PD is. Lordy but wouldn't a nice hot spring pool go good just about now for my poor sore legs. Our "colony" would have to have a 24 hour cafe for those of us with insomnia or nighttime creepies. We could call it Night & Day Cafe and I'll bet half the residents would be there every night. I know I'd be there. Having our commune near a PD centre or clinic is perfect. I hope Simon Coles picks up his E-mail. His father Derek Coles was Chairman of Parkinson's Disease Society of the United Kingdom during the time of building their first project of specialized housing for people with PD and their carers. I found an old address for PDS which might work - 22 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H ORA Telephone 071-383-3513 I think we need to make sure a lot of PDers know what we are thinking and even though I can't deal with the new file compacts of the Toronto PD list and can't read the messages therein, I will cc this to that list. The more ideas we get from a lot of people the better. Someone with a big bank account might want to take on a project. Regards, barbara Yacos <[log in to unmask]>