Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge the use of information taking from the Parkinson’s Disease Society fact sheet ‘Eating, swallowing and saliva control in Parkinson’s ’ in compiling this information and the Parkinson’s New Zealand fact sheet ‘Parkinson’s and swallowing ’.
Our thanks also to Julia Johnson1for her help in reviewing this article.
Your doctor or other healthcare professionals should be able to advise you on how to access dysphagia services in your area.
See also section on Speech & Language Therapy.
Website: www.asha.org/public/speech/swallowing/
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 130,000 members and affiliates who are speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.
ASHA National Office
2200 Research Boulevard
Rockville
MD 20850-3289
United States
Website: http://dysphagia.com/
Handy tips to ensure that people with Parkinson's are able to eat comfortably and adequately.
The Parkinson’s association in your country may also be able to provide information based on members’ experiences. The EPDA website [www.epda.eu.com] contains the contact details for European Parkinson's disease organisations and international Parkinson’s organisations.
Your Parkinson’s association may also advise and provide information and educational opportunities for health professionals.
Dysphagia is the medical term that refers to any kind of difficulty, discomfort or pain when swallowing. The word dysphagia is derived from the Greek roots dys(with difficulty) and phagia(to eat).
