Karl Robb

Join Angela and me as we sit down for an interview with Dan Glass to hear his perspective on living with Parkinson's disease. Dan’s style is candid and personal in...

Welcome to the ParkinsonsDisease.net interview series, "The Voices of Our Community," where we highlight the unique voices and experiences of people living with Parkinson's. Join me and Angela as we...

Welcome to the ParkinsonsDisease.net interview series, "The Voices of Our Community," where we highlight the unique voices and experiences of people living with Parkinson's. Join me and Angela as we...

Welcome to the ParkinsonsDisease.net interview series, "The Voices of Our Community," where we highlight the unique voices and experiences of people living with Parkinson's. Join me and Angela as we...

Welcome to the ParkinsonsDisease.net interview series, "The Voices of Our Community," where we highlight the unique voices and experiences of people living with Parkinson's. Join me and Angela as we...

What brings us happiness does not always mesh with what is found to be healthy. Chips, cookies, cake, and too much of a good thing are a great example of...

Last week, I co-hosted a Zoom meeting for people with Parkinson’s disease. Our speaker for the morning, was a dear friend and a very accomplished Qi Gong instructor. Amazingly, she...

Self-care for someone with Parkinson’s disease (PD) is not indulgent or egotistical. Self-care is about preservation, longevity, doing most of what you want to do, and helping yourself to be...

Below I provide five tips to help improve the relationship with a spouse or loved one. Communication is two ways! Not stating your wants and your needs is going to...

Part of what has sustained my mobility and my sanity with living with Parkinson’s disease for 30+ years has been a combination of good neurological assistance, medication, and basic common...

I wrote a piece on my friend, Eric, who went into a nursing home. There is good news to report! Following a tumultuous period of falls, a shoulder injury, a...

If you are quarantined at home and cannot go out, that can be very frustrating and a huge disruption to daily living! If you have Parkinson’s disease and are home...

What we do with our day is an exciting buffet of opportunity. For some of us, we may have to time our day around the efficacy of our medicines or...

The skirt of the healthcare crisis has been lifted for me. I have seen the current overload of the need, neglect, and necessity that is clogging the nursing and care...

When it comes to trying to explain how we feel on a particular day, it can be difficult to articulate in a way for someone without our exact illness (in...

Getting a handle on what activates or triggers Parkinson's symptoms can be a mystery. However, the longer you’ve had the illness and the closer you pay attention to your circumstances...

I love lists! Maybe, I love too much! My other problem with lists is that I generate too many important lists of my priorities and those ‘must do’s’ get confusing...

Atrophy means ‘A wasting away of the body or of an organ or part’, according to The Random House dictionary. Atrophy can be the result of doing nothing for yourself...

Hope is the bridge that can lead us across the pit of uncertainty. -Karl Robb Hope comes from within our head and our heart. It drives us to make improvements...

Recently, I came down with a nasty cold. I hadn’t had a cold in several years. I made it through bitter winters and steamy summers without a cold. The 2019...