Peirgiorgio - Welcome to the List, and here's hoping we can help. Italy! Wow we are becoming truly international! Kind of you to want to help your father - keep in touch. Flo At 11:09 AM 11/28/97 +0100, you wrote: >Dear members > >Thank You for the welcome. My name is Piergiorgio Rena and I live in >Rivoli (close to Torino, Italy). I am 34 years old and I work at Fiat >Research Center: i deal with electric traction. >My father has been suffering from Parkinson disease since 1982 and he is >62 years old. Every Saturday morning we attend the meetings of the >support group organised by the local section of the AIP (Parkinson >Italian Association). The main purpose of this meeting is to provide, in >addition to the medication update, a psycological support to the >patients, in order to increase their self-confidence, their creativity: >in practice, to improve the quality of their lives. >I would like to know if there are other members involved in this type of >activities and which are their initiatives at the purpose. >I do not have a personal computer at home: I have to use my office PC so >I do not have so much time to write and to read the messages I get: in >any case I will do my best to make it! >Tomorrow mornig I will be busy as a receptionist at the annual meeting >organised in Torino by the Parkinson Italian Association. >My E-Mail adress is: [log in to unmask] > >Best regards to everyone >Piergiorgio Rena >