Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I just wanted to answer your question on “multidisciplinary”. In Ontario, the Minister of Health recently decided that he would no longer fund speech therapy for Parkinson's. I can tell you that speech therapy is important and it goes a long way to ensuring that people living wi

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you once again, Madam Chair. I have three points, and I say these from my view as a caregiver. I think my pipe dream for Parkinson's, if there is one, is that it be identified as a chronic disease, the same as heart disease, diabetes, and those types of things. I would

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Good morning. My name is Carmel Boosamra, and I want to thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today about my life experience as a caregiver to a person who lived with Parkinson's disease for almost 17 years. When my late husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, w