It’s not just coping with the lack of balance and mobility, or the physical tremors, or impacted speech, that comes along with life with Parkinson’s disease.
For Mike Boze, forcing him to put down his clubs and quit golf was particularly stinging.
The resident of Glencroft Center for Modern Aging, 8611 N. 67th Ave., Glendale, saw his life change in 2010 when he was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder — second most common behind Alzheimer’s disease — that affects 1 million people in the U.S., at the rate of 60,000 new Americans being diagnosed annually, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation.
