Buetow, Stephen A.Mart_nez-Mart_n, PabloMcCormack, Brendan2018-06-292018-06-292017-09-13Buetow, S., Mart_nez-Mart_n, P. & McCormack, B. (3917) Falling upward with Parkinson's disease., NPJ Parkinson's disease, vol. 3, pp. 29.2373-8057http://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-017-0031-3http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5597627?pdf=renderhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5597627https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-017-0031-3https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/4960** From Europe PMC via Jisc Publications Router. ** Licence for this article: cc byFalls can injure, even kill. No one with Parkinson's disease (PD) wants to fall by accident. However, the potential nastiness of falls does not preclude a more nuanced understanding of the personal meaning that falls can have. Rather than view falls as a problem to fear and manage solely by preventing and repairing harm, people with PD and those who care for them may recast falls as a mixed blessing. Falls may be a resource, skill, and catalyst for personal growth. We discuss how falls may give rise to opportunities in interrelated domains: capabilities, credo, character, creativity, chronemics, and connectedness. Clinicians could incorporate a positive focus across these domains to help people with PD to 'fall upward' in the sense of flourish.29articlehttp://10.1038/s41531-017-0031-3