The Italian Association of patients with Parkinson's disease (AIP) is a non-profit organization with the purpose of providing systematic information on all aspects of Parkinson’s disease to patients, their families and healthcare workers operating in the field throughout Italy, as well as to institutions responsible for healthcare policy decisions. Founded in 1990 in Milan, AIP has developed rapidly and today, besides the Milanese headquarters, it includes another 24 branches throughout Italy and has 20,000 members. AIP was recognized officially as a socially useful non profit organization (“ONLUS”) in 1996. In view of the broad variety of services that it offers, AIP is a reference point for patients and their families also for problems that are not closely related to their clinical conditions, such as nutrition, physiotherapy, logopedia and psychological support.  

In these 17 years of work, AIP has prepared a broad range of information services, including the web site, meetings of patients with specialists at its local branches. Other services includes:

• The Guides to Parkinson's disease that are send to all members free of charge: the Red Guide (Diagnosis, Signs and Symptoms and Therapy) and the Blue Guide (Benefits, legacies and tax advice)
• The six-monthly magazine Novità AIP that is sent to all members free of charge
• Annual national meetings
• Il servizio telefonico SOS Parkinson telephone service
  

AIP is an active member of the World Parkinson Disease Association (WPDA)

For more information, please contact AIP at the following number: +39 02 66713111 or by e-mail, at the following address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For more information how to become a member, please click here.