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What brings you to The Chainlink?: The Davis Phinney Foundation was created in 2004 to help people with Parkinson’s disease live well today. Its major initiatives include: the Every Victory Counts® manual, developed by movement disorder experts to provide practical ways to live well with Parkinson’s; The Victory Summit® symposia series, which brings experts into communities to share advances in science, care and to inspire those affected by the disease to take action; the Living Well Challenge™ educational webinar series; the “Parkinson’s Exercise Essentials” DVD and, the funding of research focused on exercise, speech and other quality of life therapies. Visit the website: www.davisphinneyfoundation.org

More than 50,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease are diagnosed each year in the U.S., and an estimated 1.5 million Americans are living with the disease. Today, one of the country’s preeminent nonprofit organizations devoted to Parkinson’s, the Davis Phinney Foundation (DPF), along with the Paul Ruby Foundation for Parkinson’s (PRF) jointly announced their plans to join forces later this year.