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It looks like Mom can no longer sit down in the grass. PD is a dibilitating desease. Some people, like my friend, have it for years. It was 20 years or more from diagnosis before he needed a walker. But he had a speech problem. Some people it goes faster.
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I am uncertain of the direction you wish to go with your question.
Is this an emergency? If so, enlist a friend or neighbor or the local fire department to help you get mom up.

Are you concerned about the rapid progression of her PD?
If so, then you should attend the doctor and tell him that symptoms are worse, and mother suffers more debility. Ask for a possible PT consult for her; attend it with her.

I am 81. I have not great knees and not perfect hips. And yeah, staying down now means it is difficult to get up (and ugly-awkward looking). An elder kind of learns to manage with what strength is LEFT. So for me, after weeding too long or sitting on floor level too long it is: turn, brace myself with hands and arms straight, and get up without too much knee bending.

PT consult helped me recently to stretch a long tendon that attaches up on our hip bones and goes down all the way across our knees to attach to the tibia. This band keeps our lower leg attached to our upper thigh quite nicely, but when it gets tight with age and non-use it hinders movement. Your doctor may wish you mom to go for a PT consult to help with balance and stretching exercises.

The truth is that, given her diagnosis, things are going to become more difficult. Balance plays a huge part. And much as we elders learn to use the legs when arms are weak and arms when legs are out of order, at some point it ALL GOES SOUTH, and we are best to have special chairs, walkers, canes, that whole array of helping equipment. Try to manage all this when you really have to pee!

Welcome to the Forum, Shell. Remember, the more information, updating and participation you give us, the more answers you will get and the more thorough those answers will be, but much of any illness--Parkinson's especially--is as individual in progression as the person's own thumbprint.
I wish you luck. Get your own muscles in good order if you are attempting in home care. Consider emergency call devices for Mom if she is ever now alone.
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Maybe it's time to stop sitting at ground level, even without PD plenty of older people have difficulty with this, that's why they can't get up after a fall.
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I don’t understand “she had no strength in either of her legs to pull herself up to stand up”. If I am sitting on the floor, I get up by rolling a bit, putting my two hands (usually in fists) to push myself up from a kneeling position. I put the pressure on my fists to avoid putting too much pressure on my knee caps - easier to do than to explain! I don’t think I could use my leg muscles to stand up from a squat. How were you expecting your mother to stand up from sitting on the grass, and how did she try to do it? What was your actual question?
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