Your Experienced 20-year
Parkinson's Expert, Patient Advocate
& Parkinson's Lifestyle Consultant
At Parkinson Partners, LLC (PPLLC), we provide tailored guidance to meet the unique needs of individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their families. Whether you need short-or long-term expert guidance throughout your Parkinson’s journey, we are here to help. Every situation is unique, and we adapt our services to best support you and your loved ones.
Personal Guidance for Every Step of Your Parkinson’s Journey
Advocacy
How We Support You as Your Patient Advocate
We work closely with you and your family to navigate the complexities of Parkinson’s disease, ensuring you receive the guidance and resources you need.
Our Advocacy Services Include:
Educating you and your family about Parkinson’s disease and its progression.
Preparing for medical appointments.
Teaching you to monitor your symptoms and medication side effects.
Building a comprehensive care team tailored to your needs.
Offering access to complementary resources.
Guidance for short-term and long-term planning.
Consulting
How We Guide You as Your Lifestyle Consultant
Living well with Parkinson's disease is possible with the right tools and strategies. As your lifestyle consultant, we provide day-to-day guidance to help you adjust and thrive at every stage of the disease.
Our Consulting Services Include:
Developing proactive strategies for short- and long-term planning.
Educating extended family and friends about Parkinson’s disease.
Offering tips and techniques to maintain an active, engaged lifestyle.
Suggesting meaningful activities to stay connected with your community.
Providing lifestyle coaching to navigate transitions and challenges.
Community & Business Groups
Empowering, Educating, and Partnering with Local Organizations
By working with community groups, senior living facilities, and businesses, we help raise awareness, dispel common misconceptions, and build a foundation of understanding and support for those living with Parkinson’s
Training: We provide tailored education and training for community groups, businesses, and organizations.
Facilitation: We organize and run support groups, sponsored by individuals, businesses, or facilities outside our community.
Consulting: Our consulting services address a wide range of topics related to chronic diseases and Parkinson’s, offering in-depth guidance to meet the specific needs of your organization or community.
Speaking Engagements: We deliver compelling presentations tailored for your audience, whether they are staff, clients, residents, or members of a broader community.
Medical and Non-Medical Providers
Even when you clock out, the emotional and mental weight of caregiving never truly leaves. We offer a space where paid caregivers can decompress, connect with others who understand the unique challenges of your work, and find inspiration through creative events and meaningful conversations. This is a place where you can care for yourself as much as you care for others.
Start with a Free Consultation
We offer a FREE 30 minute phone or Zoom consultation to help determine if our services are the right fit.
During this session, we will:
Assess your or your loved one’s symptoms and Parkinson’s progression.
Discuss your readiness and willingness to engage in education about Parkinson’s.
Determine if working with an advocate aligns with your needs.
After Your Free Consultation
If we mutually agree to work together, here’s how it works:
Initial Fee:
$395
A one-time, non-refundable fee covers:
Two months of consulting (90 minutes per month via Zoom or phone). Time can be split into 30-minute increments if you prefer.
After Initial Fee:
$150/hr
Ongoing Monthly Support:
After the initial two months, ongoing consulting is provided on a month-to-month basis as mutually agreed.
A minimum of one hour per month is required, and payment is due in advance.
Katherine Autin
Katherine Autin
CEO/Founder, Parkinson Partners, LLC
Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA)
Parkinson's Disease Expert, Patient Advocate, Caregiver Coach, Author, Trainer & Speaker
Katherine has been a passionate advocate for individuals with Parkinson’s disease and their families since 2004 when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. As a nationally recognized Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA) and experienced educator, trainer, and speaker, Katherine has dedicated her career to empowering the Parkinson’s community. Her work focuses on patient advocacy, caregiver education, and developing strategies to improve quality of life and healthcare outcomes for those affected by this complex disease. She is known as the "Parkinson's Lady".
It has been her dream to launch and grow a community for caregivers where the caregivers can find peace and empowerment with others in a similar journey.
How Do We Help Patients and Families?
Parkinson Partners LLC (PPLLC) is founded on an important belief that was shaped by 20+ years of direct, personal assistance to hundreds of Parkinson’s patients and their families. We believe that people with Parkinson’s (pwps) are often kept from attaining the best healthcare outcomes and the highest quality of life possible by simple obstacles that can be removed — if you know how. We will help you remove obstacles in the following areas:
Short- and Long-term Plans to Meet
the Challenges of the Disease.
We will help in developing short- and long-term plans with you and your family after assessing your status in your disease journey. We can guide you to consider when the right time for a lift chair, a wheelchair, and optional living situations might be.
Guide you to Access Professional
and Other Resources Available to Help You in Your Journey
We will guide you in how to access and benefit from healthcare and other helpful resources available to people with Parkinson's and their family caregivers, including exercise programs for Parkinson's.
Provide Emotional Support and
Encouragement with Family and Friends
We will educate your family about your symptoms and how they can help and support you. It's not their fault. When family doesn't understand what you are experiencing, they don't know how to help and support you.
Understanding There are Myths, Misconceptions, Side effects, and More
We will provide a full overview of possible symptoms that Parkinson's disease causes and look at how to track medication side effects. In this process, you will get better clarity about some of the myths and misconceptions that folks misunderstand about this disease.
"It is what you don't know about Parkinson's disease and caregiving that makes all the difference, positive and negative. This is why I believe we all must cherish time with our loved ones and friends, and as my husband says "let laughter lead the way to healing". ~ Katherine Autin, Founder
Also...
Patient Advocate Training
for Caregivers
Have you ever felt overwhelmed and scared as a caregiver? When my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2004, I felt lost—unsure of what to do or where to turn. Every doctor’s appointment and decision felt like a mountain to climb.
If you know that feeling, you’re not alone. Caregiving is one of the most important roles you’ll ever take on, yet no one teaches us how to do it effectively. Most of us learn on the job, leading to mistakes that can affect both you and the person you’re caring for.
That’s why I created
Patient Advocate Training for Caregivers
—to share the skills, tools, and strategies I’ve learned over the years. This 6-month online training will give you the confidence to navigate the complexities of caregiving and healthcare advocacy.
The Advocacy Story
When my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2004, neither one of us knew all that much about it. Our limited exposure to this insidious illness included small snippets of information overheard from interviews by Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali or picked up from TV news stories or an occasional magazine article.
Faced with this unexpected and frightening threat, my husband was told to “take the medicine prescribed and come back in one year.” Stunned and at a loss where to turn or who to go for information or advice, we both thought the same thing, “NOW WHAT”?
I soon discovered that we weren’t the only ones. Each day, ordinary people just like us were facing futures suddenly, frighteningly different from any they had imagined, without a clue as to what they needed to do next. Since that day, it has been my personal mission to learn as much as I can about this complex disease and to find ways to help my husband and other PD sufferers get the best healthcare outcomes possible and live life to the fullest.
WHAT DO THEY SAY
What the Community is Saying
"When I started with Parkinson’s Disease a few years ago, I went searching for someone to consult with me to help me in every facet of the disease from solid advice to emotional support. I was so blessed to find Katherine who has been putting her heart and mind into the whole spectrum that Parkinson’s Disease is for more than 20 years.
Always smiling, researching, and connecting, Katherine told me to always tell her the full truth and she would do the same for me, and it turned into a very effective and great relationship. It was so nice to miss so many Parkinson’s false starts on roads that she had already been down.
Open minded and yet very accurate in her research, I was able to learn about a variety of things I could do to improve my life with Parkinson’s, including finding community, exercise, voice exercises, preparation for surprises, medication tracking, promising new research, Parkinson’s norms, neurologist communication, legal medical preparation, personal experiences, and much much more!
Learning all of this information through a real person verses solely the internet was definitely the right choice and reduced my and my family’s stress heaps.
Genuinely kind, driven, happy, and realistic, Katherine is someone I would like to have as a neighbor. She has adapted to her husband’s Parkinson’s journey for the best parts of her life and helped turn the dirt into flowers! Over my first year or two with the disease and consulting with Katherine, I am doing many times better in all facets of my journey and I couldn’t recommend Katherine more to have on my Parkinson’s team. There are not a lot of Parkinson’s consultants out there, so I’m not sure who could replace her. So in that sense, I feel lucky to have found her."
David Pond
Parkinson's Client
"We are immensely grateful for the support, kindness, and comfort you have provided us as we have coped with my wife's Parkinson's disease."
George P.
Parkinson's Caregiver Client
"I didn't know I needed a Patient Advocate to help with my Parkinson's. Thank you Katherine. You have made a huge difference in my quality of life."
Rose D., PhD
Parkinson's Client
