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I'm new to this board - concerned about my grandmother's treatment - or lack thereof... I believe she is one of the last surviving members of a unique group of people who came down with encephalytis in the early 1920's and went into long-standing comas. The movie Awakenings with Robin Williams as the doctor and Robert DeNiro as the patient chronicled it to some extent. My grandmother, however, was lucky - as her parents had the ability to bring specialists from Switzerland who brought her out of the coma after only 18 days. (Why their methods were not used by or on others, I don't know...) She went on to live a fairly normal life and is now 94 years old. Medical literature has documented a so-called Secondary Parkinsons developing in the later life of survivors of the 1920's epidemic. It is supposedly a "milder" form of PD and requires subtle differences in medications which can almost completely control the symptoms. This would be a blessing for her as she seems to be getting worse and is very frustrated by it. Is anyone familiar with this type PD and its treatment? Thank you for any help - or direction to look!