Our thinking is slower but most of us still have all our intelligence. Maybe just bearing with her as she puts her ideas together will be helpful to her.

Yes we get forgetful, as does everyone that ages, but I have noticed that I'm very distractable and I can't keep track of a lot of different things going on at once. It's also very difficult to perceive time going by or to estimate how long it will take to do things.

There's much good family information available from the National Parkinson Foundation at www.parkinson.org or any of the big charities.

Best of all, read this board as much as you can for insight into our difficulties. Everything becomes a struggle for us, and it helps if our families can see that we're not stupid, just slower in many ways.

Jaye