Ms. Rehm is headlining an awards dinner at the National Press Club on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, which will also include Wolf Blitzer and Elanor Clift. http://www.parkinsonsaction.org/.
I'm writing to ask that she please raise the bar and challenge the host organization to broaden its agenda beyond just research to include social/living issues, including especially threats to the safety net of Social Security and Medicare which continue to surface in discussions on eliminating entitlement programs.
Mo Udall turned in a phrase what took me more than a decade of living with Parkinsons and taking a national leadership role in providing pro bono resources for people with PD to distill: “No place could call itself a city -- a center of civilization -- if it did not provide for the education of its young people and the care of its sick and elderly.” I hope that Ms. Rehm carries the spirit of that message to the awards dinner next week, so that "care" becomes part of the Parkinsons community's advocacy agenda, not just "cure."
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