Buetow, Stephen AMartínez-Martín, PabloMcCormack, Brendan2022-05-252022-05-252017-09-13NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2017 Sep 13;3:29.2373-8057http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/14512Falls 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.engVoRhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Atribución 4.0 Internacional2892007632910.1038/s41531-017-0031-3NPJ Parkinson's Diseaseopen access