Wide grip pen with magnet designed for people with Parkinson's disease

Published Date: 08 Mar 2023

When grandpa Izzy Mokotoff stopped writing his weekly newsletter in the spring of 2022, he knew he had to find a solution. Parkinson's disease was slowly destroying my grandfather's central nervous system.

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