Dedicated to impacting and improving the quality of life for Parkinson’s patients and their families
Welcome to DAPS!
Welcome to the Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society (DAPS)! We are glad you have found us, and hope you will find this site informative. DAPS offers many services to parkinsonians living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including more than 20 physical therapy, speech therapy, and partners-in-care groups. Look around the site, and let us know how we can help you.
Get Your DAPS Newsletter by Email!
You can now sign up to receive our newsletters by email! Just send your email address to Ann Staton, and she will get you signed up for this handy option.
In the meantime, click this link to read the January 2012 DAPS newsletter!
2012 General Membership Meetings
Mark your calendars NOW!
These fun and informative meetings feature a different guest speaker each month. Speakers last year included neurologists, a pulmonologist and sleep expert, the program coordinator for a local movement disorder center, an expert on end-of-life care for Parkinson's patients, representatives from DAPS' patient services team, and a dance therapy teacher.
There is always time for questions afterward, and light refreshments are provided. Mark your calendar for the dates above, and look for details in the monthly newsletter.
We look forward to seeing you!
Half Shells Fundraiser
Dine at Half Shells at their Legacy location in Plano on January 3, 2012, any time between 11am and 10pm, and DAPS will receive 15% of all sales for the day!
Half Shells Legacy is located in Legacy Town Center at the corner of Legacy Drive and Dallas Tollway. Phone: 469-241-1300.
Directions: Toll Road to Legacy, right to first light, then right—Half Shells will be on your right. Click here for a map.
Great food! Hope you can make it!
Interview with Mr. Dawson
Bob Dawson, interviewed by Heeseung Ko—a South Korean vidiographer living in Montreal—on July, 2011 in Havelock, Quebec.
Mr. Dawson is a successful businessman, talented writer, wonderful husband and an inspiring father who has been fighting with Parkinson’s disease since 2004. He has found “dancing” as a medium to defeat the symptoms and enrich the quality of his life. He is the living proof that we can do anything if we believe.