WHAT IS PARKINSON'S?
Parkinson's disease affects one in 500 people, and around 127,000 people in the UK live with the condition.
Figures also suggest one million Americans also suffer.
It causes muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, tremors, sleep disturbance, chronic fatigue, an impaired quality of life and can lead to severe disability.
It is a progressive neurological condition that destroys cells in the part of the brain that controls movement.
Sufferers are known to have diminished supplies of dopamine because nerve cells that make it have died.
There is currently no cure and no way of stopping the progression of the disease, but hundreds of scientific trials are underway to try and change that.
This warms my cold heart!' Viewers in tears as Lavinia, 81, dances for the first time in a DECADE after Parkinson's left her bound to a mobility scooter in moving scene on Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds
There was a huge milestone in Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds: Christmas
Lavinia, 81, danced for the first time in a decade after a Parkinson's diagnosis
She usually relies on mobility aids to get around but danced with ease tonight
The scene left viewers in 'tears' with one tweeting: 'I cannot stop crying'
There was a huge milestone in Old People's Home for 4 Year Olds: Christmas
Lavinia, 81, danced for the first time in a decade after a Parkinson's diagnosis
She usually relies on mobility aids to get around but danced with ease tonight
The scene left viewers in 'tears' with one tweeting: 'I cannot stop crying'
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