Parkinson’s Australia have lodged a Pre-Budget Submission for 2024 to 2025, which is a proposal for a Lived Experience Project, a National Awareness Campaign and GP Education Program.
Our Objectives
- Seek out the stories and issues that people living with Parkinson’s in different communities’ experiences with diagnosis journeys, stigma, access to care, etc.
- Raise awareness about early warning signs and the motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s, highlighting that Parkinson’s is more than a tremor.
- Challenge the perception that Parkinson’s is ‘just an old person’s condition’, as approximately 20% of people diagnosed with Parkinson’s are under 50 and are of working age.
- Raise awareness about Parkinson’s being the fastest growing neurodegenerative condition in the world.
- Encourage those who have early warning signs and symptoms to seek an earlier diagnosis, which will educate General Practitioners (GPs), and other Allied Health Professionals (AHP) in Australia. This will help them to understand and recognise early warning signs and symptoms which will enable swifter referral pathways to Movement Disorder Specialists (MDS).
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