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Joining you now from Boston, temporarily, where Mom is at acute rehab getting the pt (&ot/neuro) assessment I was so urgently trying to arrange before, but didn't know what to ask for. It angers me that neither the assisted living nursing staff nor her neurologist suggested such a thing or anything when made aware of her sharply-increased falling. (In fact her neurologist was one of those who said PT won't do any good for someone with Parkinson's.) And anger is a good place to put some of my overwhelming emotion. It took another bad fall, banging her head on a cabinet, to emergency room social worker, to get her this attention. Now tho' all symptoms are not surprisingly much worse with new ones to boot. Please, all, try to avoid these falls. She frequently doesn't know where she is, has short-term memory problems, can't walk or sit on her own, thinks the current Jewish holiday is Passover, etc., but still has her sense of humor thank God. Also now has "intentional" tremor, where no tremor existed before (but didn't I read that Parkinson tremor is "at-rest" type?) The medical team here seems very attentive, but won't change any drugs until complete assessment. I have contributed info on dates Amantadine was started (9/20, I was with her 9/20-22) and increased (9/27) and log from assisted living residence of times Mom fell/called for emergency help. Since she moved there 9/12, their first record of emergency call is 9/24, once a day until 9/27 then twice, then 4x 9/30 including the last one. Also nauseous, not eating and vomiting half of 9/29. armed with log and side effect info Kathrynne Holden supplied (thanks so much), I'm going in a little more aggressively. I could use some feedback on how assertive to be on this subject. thanks all. emily cg/Mom 76, 2-3 months ([log in to unmask])