TY - JOUR T1 - Yonder: Parkinson’s spouses, weight-loss surgery, pension participation, and male nurses JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 34 LP - 34 DO - 10.3399/bjgp23X731685 VL - 73 IS - 726 AU - Ahmed Rashid Y1 - 2023/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/73/726/34.abstract N2 - Yonder: a diverse selection of primary care relevant research stories from beyond the mainstream biomedical literatureAlthough research has consistently shown that Parkinson’s disease (PD) can have a significant adverse effect on spouses, this has predominantly been in spouses who act as primary caregivers. This led an Israeli research team to investigate the experiences of spouses who do not identify as primary caregivers.1 They found that the progressive nature of PD led to a dynamic nature to the participants’ experiences; as the disease progressed, it intensified in their experience. In a similar fashion to the ‘on-off’ phenomenon experienced by levodopa-treated PD patients, where patients go through cycles of fluctuating symptoms, spouses experienced a ‘seesaw’ dynamic where the disease took … ER -