Chapel Hill Parkinson's Support Group
UNC Movement Disorders Center is a Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence and CurePSP Center of Care, and aims to serve and support those living with Parkinson's disease and atypical Parkinsonism diagnoses.
The Chapel Hill-based Parkinson's support group is hosted in collaboration with the Orange County Department on Aging. It is open to anyone in the community who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease or is a care partner of someone with Parkinson's disease. You do not need to be a UNC patient to attend.
When:
Where: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this support group is currently meeting online, via Zoom. Before COVID-19, this group met out of the Seymour Senior Center in Chapel Hill.
RSVP is required by the Sunday before in order to receive the information to join the Zoom meeting.
Contact: For questions, to RSVP and/or to be added to email list, please contact Maggie Ivancic, MSW, LCSWA at mivancic@neurology.unc.edu or 919-843-1657
For additional Parkinson's support groups in North Carolina, please visit www.parkinsonassociation.org
The Chapel Hill-based Parkinson's support group is hosted in collaboration with the Orange County Department on Aging. It is open to anyone in the community who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease or is a care partner of someone with Parkinson's disease. You do not need to be a UNC patient to attend.
When:
- First Tuesdays of the month
- Alternates every other month between:
- "Split groups" (care partners 12:30-1:30 and people with PD 2:30-3:30) - these are for open discussion
- "Full groups" (anyone with PD or care partners) 1:30-3:00pm - we alternate between presentations and topic-based group discussions
Where: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this support group is currently meeting online, via Zoom. Before COVID-19, this group met out of the Seymour Senior Center in Chapel Hill.
RSVP is required by the Sunday before in order to receive the information to join the Zoom meeting.
Contact: For questions, to RSVP and/or to be added to email list, please contact Maggie Ivancic, MSW, LCSWA at mivancic@neurology.unc.edu or 919-843-1657
For additional Parkinson's support groups in North Carolina, please visit www.parkinsonassociation.org
