Meeting commentary-"Parkinson's disease: From patient to product"

Abstract

A meeting organised by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APSGB) Age-Related Medicines Focus Group took place on the 19th of May 2015, in GlaxoSmithKline Ware, UK [∗]. The meeting was the first of a planned series of disease specific meetings organised by APSGB. It was attended by a number of experts involved with the treatment and development of drugs for the older adult, including clinicians, pharmacists, academics, regulators and representatives from industry. The event created the platform to discuss the provision of medicines for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD) from a pharmaceutical sciences perspective. 'Medications are something you prescribe: something that gives me my life back' (A PD sufferer).