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HONORING SENIORS

Best In-Home Care:

Southwest Parkinson Society Advocates

by Tracy Daniel Nelson

est In-Home Care is a family owned caregiver business Walk through the National Ranching Heritage Center in
in Lubbock, specializing in senior in-home care. It was Lubbock and the pre-walk Happy Trails Dinner and Dance.
Bestablished in 2011 by Yvonne Woody and her daughter, Best In-Home Care is committed to helping the Southwest
Tracy Daniel Nelson. Parkinson Society. Our volunteering has enhanced our
understanding of our own Parkinson patients and Parkinson
Husband and wife Tracy and Doug Nelson of Best In-Home patients in the region.
Care each have fathers afflicted with Parkinson’s disease. With
the blessing of Tracy’s mom, Yvonne, Best In-Home Care has Our work on next year’s events are already underway. In
found ways to support the Southwest Parkinson Society. Tracy addition to the Annual Wine and Chocolate Fantasia, the Fall
and Doug joined their board and began learning about the Walk through the RHC and the Dinner and Dance, new events
society’s needs and established programs. are being created. You and your friends are always welcome to
join us in creating, assisting and donating.
Every nine minutes, someone new is diagnosed with
Parkinson’s disease. Today there are more than one million Please call the Southwest Parkinson Society at 806-725-0941 or
people in the United States living with this dreadful illness, 806-725-0942 or Best In-Home Care at 806-368-7985.
and many experts agree that there are twice that many
undiagnosed. Parkinson’s affects more people than all other
movement disorders (ALS, Huntington’s, MS, etc.) combined.
And it is no respecter of persons, affecting all ages, races and
genders. The youngest person ever diagnosed was just three
years old, and at least 10% of all cases today are diagnosed
before the age of 40.

Tracy and Doug learned about events which help the
Southwest Parkinson Society provide a multitude of benefits
for patients and caregivers. In Lubbock, support groups for
both patients and caregivers are offered and may be attended
together or separately. Water exercise classes, seated Zumba
classes and Right Cross boxing classes are also available.
Over 25 support groups meet regularly across our region.
Educational symposia for anyone interested in Parkinson’s
disease are sponsored several times a year, and all funds raised
by The Southwest Parkinson Society stay in this region.
Doug explains, “Tracy and I are willing, along with our
employees, to pitch in and take any assignment to help an
event succeed. We’ve set up a stage for the Caldwell kids to
perform at the Southwest Parkinson Society’s Christmas party
for Parkinson patients and caregivers. Best In-Home Care was
one of the sponsors and helped with the auction at the Annual
Wine and Chocolate Fantasia at the Llano Estacado Winery.
We were also a sponsor and helped promote the annual Fall

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