| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 214 pages) |
| Contents |
A box for father: healthcare and nursing homes -- Learning from the inside out: mind-body and mindfulness-based interventions -- Knock, knock: complementary and alternative medicine -- The sound of one hand clapping: mindfulness-based elder care -- Imagine this: mindfulness-based elder care for frail elders in the nursing home -- Drifting away from my head to my heart: mindfulness-based elder care for elders with dementia -- Got to go through the door: mindfulness-based elder care for isolated elders and palliative care -- Dance like nobody is watching: mindfulness-based elder care and creativity -- Who will take care of us? an overview of mindfulness-based elder care for caregivers -- Riding the waves: mindfulness-based elder care for informal caregivers -- Learning to take care of myself: a 7-week mindfulness-based elder care course -- Introduction to stress reduction for professional caregivers: a 1-hour class and other options for staff -- Walking with tigers |
| Summary |
"She shares with us her gold - the conception, trial and error implementation, and initial scientific investigation of a new, educationally-oriented treatment approach that she has named mindfulness-based elder care (MBEC)."--The Foreword by Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, Associate Professor of Medicine, . Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. University of Massachusetts Medical School. Drawing on years of experience as a geriatric social worker and mindfulness-based stress reduction practitioner, the author has taken Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Frail older people -- Diseases -- Alternative treatment
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Frail older people -- Nursing home care
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Alternative medicine.
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Meditation.
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Caregivers.
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Mind and body.
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Therapeutics, Physiological.
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Frail older people
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Medical personnel and patient.
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Misinformation.
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Frail Elderly
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Health Services for the Aged
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Caregivers
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Communication
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Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
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Professional-Patient Relations
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Complementary Therapies
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MEDICAL -- Long-Term Care.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing Home Care.
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Frail older people
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Therapeutics, Physiological
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Medical personnel and patient
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Alternative medicine
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Caregivers
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Meditation
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Mind and body
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007045872 |
| ISBN |
9780826115294 |
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0826115292 |
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1281806587 |
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9781281806581 |
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9786611806583 |
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661180658X |
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