Announcements
Last updated on April 9, 2024.
- Canceled: June 2025 Care Partners Gathering
The Care Partners gathering on June 4 will not be held. We’ll resume the gatherings on July 2, 2025 at 2pm.
To be invited to the Zoom gathering, you must sign up for our Care Partners mailing list. The access link to the call is sent out 24 hours before the meeting. Be sure to select the “Care Partners” option if you want to hear about Care Partner’s Calls.
The Zoom platform is graciously provided by the Parkinson and Movement Disorder Alliance.
- Strategies for Meaningful Health Care Visits
We’ve talked a lot in the past year about how to best use your health care visits, and this week the Parkinson’s Foundation is hosting a webinar on just this topic. It’s this Wednesday at 11am Mountain. Kathy Blake is one of the panelists!
Learn more below, or register at Taking Charge: Strategies for Meaningful Health Care Visits. The webinar is free, but registration is required.
- Grieving the Death of A Loved One
This group program is for those who have experienced recent deaths of family, friends, or colleagues. It is free-of-charge and is facilitated by Eileen Joyce, Certified Coach and Grief Recovery Specialist with 25 years of experience. The group is sponsored by the Memory Care Alliance and is free of charge to participants.
The purpose of this program is to learn and share in a confidential setting. Each week we will discuss grief and loss and how they affect daily life and relationships.
Meetings over the six weeks will cover:
- Losses and how we deal with them
- The myths about grief, loss, and healing
- How unresolved grief affects our capacity for happiness
- Creating resilience even in times of greatest challenges
Please contact Eileen to reserve your place: email or call .
Download the full flyer:
- NM Aging & Long-Term Services
The team at the NM Aging & Long-Term Services Department has shared the following resources with us.
Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC)
The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) is one “hub” that can navigate people in the right direction.
Veteran-Directed Care Program
Veteran-Directed Care gives Veterans of all ages the opportunity to receive the Home and Community Services they need in a consumer-directed way. The flyer provides more details and contact information.
New Mexicare
New MexiCare provides financial assistance and training to caregivers who are assisting friends or family members with daily activities due to physical or cognitive limitations. The goal of the program is to allow older adults to thrive in their homes and communities as an alternative to nursing home placements and to help reduce emergency department visits.
- Moving Day 2025Moving Day Santa Fe
Place: The Montecito of Santa Fe 500 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM, 87505
Time: May 3 @ 9:30 am – May 3 @ 12:00 pm
Register or donate today!: https://movingdaywalk.org/event/moving-day-santa-fe/
Moving day is a national fund-raising event for the Parkinson's Foundation. Last year, Santa Fe raised over $50,000 to help cure Parkinson's Disease.
- My PD Story: Kathleen Blake
One of our members, , is featured in this month’s My PD Story at the Parkinson’s Foundation.
- Meditation as Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
This program by Dr. Sarah Mulukutla, MD, MPH, FAAN is Thursday March 12, at 2pm Mountain. It is sponsored by the Long Island Parkinson’s Disease Coalition. The lecture is free, but registration is required.
- March 2025 Stress-Busters Class
- Managing the Hidden Symptoms: Mood and Motivation Changes in Parkinson’s
Depression, anxiety and apathy are mood changes that some, but not all, people living with Parkinson’s experience, and they can occur at any point in the disease journey. In this Third Thursdays Webinar, join expert panelists as they discuss how mood changes can impact life with the disease, tips and treatments to manage them, and the latest research on these non-motor symptoms. https://www.michaeljfox.org/webinar/managing-hidden-symptoms-mood-and-motivation-changes-parkinsons
- Dealing with the grief and loss while living with PD
This group is for anyone living with the ongoing challenges from Parkinson’s disease. Whether you have the diagnosis or are the partner/helper, you each have unique losses and as you know they can change daily! Everyone is welcome to join even if you need to miss one or more sessions.
Those losses include your physical, mental, and emotional health along with any of the over 40 losses you may have from the past.
The purpose of this group is to learn, share, and take action:
• The myths about grief and loss
• About grief and how it affects all areas of our lives
• Communicating more effectively
• Creating hope in the darkest times
• Forms and structures to help and empower you through the dayAs a result of participating in the group, you will be better equipped to care for yourself whether you have PD or are the partner/helper.
The group is sponsored by the Santa Fe PD Action Group and the Memory Care Alliance, therefore free of charge to participants. It is facilitated by Eileen Joyce, Hudson Institute Certified Coach and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist.