Navigating Parkinson’s in a ‘neurology desert’: As the population ages, diagnoses increase—and advocates cite a lack of local care

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Navigating Parkinson’s in a ‘neurology desert’: As the population ages, diagnoses increase—and advocates cite a lack of local care

Dr. Mindy Lokshin, a Reno life coach who used to work as a family physician, has multiple family members with Parkinson’s disease. All of them live in other states, and as she watched them navigate their diagnoses and begin to access care options, she realized that in Northern Nevada, such options were less plentiful.  “Those places have resources we don’t,” Lokshin said in a phone interview.  In 2021, she and a few locals—mostly people who have…