This piece was written for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. You may read it here.
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Allan Cole is Deputy to the President for Societal Challenges and Opportunities at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also serves as the Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor in Social Work in The Steve Hicks School of Social Work and, by courtesy, as a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Dell Medical School. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016, at the age of 48, he is the author or editor of many books on a range of topics related to bereavement, anxiety, and spirituality. His latest books are Counseling Persons with Parkinson’s Disease (Oxford University Press); his first book of poetry, In the Care of Plenty: Poems (Resource Publications); and Discerning the Way: Lessons from Parkinson’s Disease (Cascade). Follow him on Twitter @PDWise.