CA ACR171

Designates April 2022 as Parkinson's Awareness Month in California

Notes that Parkinson's disease affects approximately 1,000,000 people in the United States, with numbers expected to double by 2040, and over 115,000 people in California

Highlights that Parkinson's disease costs an estimated $58 billion annually nationwide and $5.8 billion annually in California for direct and indirect health care costs

References the California Parkinson's Disease Registry (created 2017, operational 2018) and the expanded California Neurodegenerative Disease Registry, which has collected over 300,000 electronic records from more than 500 reporting entities

Acknowledges that no cure currently exists, there is no objective diagnostic test, and available treatments are limited in effectiveness