Because one of the specialties your primary care doctors at Cohen Medical Associates in Delray Beach, Florida, offers is senior care, we often encounter patients who worry that they are developing Parkinson’s disease (PD). This is not unusual, because Parkinson’s affects nearly a million people in the United States, according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, with nearly 60,000 new cases diagnosed each year, mainly among older Americans. A diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease can be frightening, because it is progressive, meaning it becomes worse over time. Symptoms include the familiar body tremors, as well as difficulties with balance and coordination, loss of the