Cowra Stock and Station Agents will conduct a Lamb and Sheep Drive Auction each Friday throughout the month of September at the Cowra Saleyards on the Young Road.
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The drive will be held to help raise funds for Cowra Parkinson’s Support Group.
The funds raised will go towards helping provide assistance for local Parkinson’s Disease Sufferers and Research into the disease.
Parkinson’s Disease is a poorly understood disease.
Many people associate the disease with the ageing process or a noted celebrity, such as Ali or Michael J Fox, who has brought attention to the world to help with research as they fight the disease.
The majority of the population understand Parkinsons to be ‘’ just the shakes’’.
The reality is much different.
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurological disease after Dementia.
It is a disease that is progressive, a degenerative neurological condition that affects a person control of their body movements, speech and thought process.
The disease affects an estimated 10 million individuals worldwide, 80,000 in Australia.
Thirty two Australians are diagnosed with the disease every day.
Twenty per cent of sufferers are under 50 years old and 10 per cent are diagnosed before the age of 40 and much younger even in their teens.
The number of people with Parkinson’s has increased by 17 per cent in the last six years and costs to the community increasing by over 48 per cent.
The aim for research is to get an early diagnosis and find a cure and it is hoped in the next few years a break through with a blood test will help detect the disease before it really takes hold.
Research for Parkinson’s Disease has only just started to gather pace over last twenty years as it was basically in the too hard basket until the Michael J. Fox Foundation was set up and started to provide large funding for research throughout the world.
As a result support groups started to establish everywhere.
This enabled contact with the headquarters in each state who conduct conferences and workshops and phone help throughout the country.
The groups also help to lobby for Parkinson’s Nurse Specialists to be employed especially in the rural areas of Australia.
Cowra Parkinson’s Support would like to thank the following for their help.
President of the Cowra Stock and Station Agents Association Ross Chivers.
Paul Dresser and all the agents and sheep farmers who assist with the Cowra Lamb and Sheep Drive throughout September.
