Mindfulness-Based Elder Care

Informationen zum Autor Lucia McBee, LCSW, MPH, is a geriatric social worker who has worked with elders and their caregivers for 27 years. Klappentext "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)."-from the Foreword by Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, Associate Professor of Medicine,Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and SocietyUniversity of Massachusetts Medical SchoolDrawing on years of experience as a geriatric social worker and mindfulness-based stress reduction practitioner, the author has taken Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and adapted it to the particular needs of elders, their families, and professional caregivers. Mindfulness practices focus on abilities, rather than disabilities, in order to provide paths to the inner strengths and resources that we all possess. McBee's Mindfulness-Based Elder Care conveys the benefits of mindfulness through meditation, gentle yoga, massage, aromatherapy, humor, and other creative therapies to this special population. She provides clear, concise instructions for her program, as well as a wealth of anecdotal and experiential exercises, to help readers at all levels of experience. Hers is the first book to fully explore the value of mindfulness models for frail elders and their caregivers.Features of this groundbreaking volume include: Valuable tips for establishing programs to address each population's specific needs and restrictions Designed for short classes or 8-week courses Detailed experiential exercises for the reader Replete with case studies Clear, easy-to-follow instructions for elders and caregivers at all levelsThis innovative book is suitable for use with a variety of populations such as nursing home residents with physical and cognitive challenges, community-dwelling elders, direct-care staff, and non-professional caregivers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Saki F. Santorelli Preface Acknowledgments Section I. Foundations A Box for Father: Healthcare and Nursing Homes What is Healthcare? Trends in Aging and Healthcare What are the Alternatives? Elements of Care Provision What we value Learning from the Inside Out: Mind-Body and Mindfulness-Based Interventions Mind-Body Medicine Overview Mindfulness Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Other Mindfulness-Based Programs Mindfulness Practices Other Informal Practices Practice Embracing Our Stress Knock, Knock: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Aromatherapy Hand massage Creative therapy Humor Other CAM Modalities Section II. Practical Applications of Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Frail Elders Poem: Meadowbrook Nursing Home The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care Teaching Mindfulness to Elders What Are the Issues Clinical Work With Older Adults Overview of MBEC Groups Imagine This: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care For Frail Elders in the Nursing Home Overview Group Format Skills Considerations: Environmental Considerations: Population Endings Measuring Results: MBEC Research Drifting Away From My Head to My Heart: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Elders With Dementia What Do We Know About Dementia? Communication With Persons With Dementia Behaviors Accompanying dementia Group LeaderMBEC groups Complementary and Alternative Interventions on a Dementia Unit The Florence V. Burden Study on the Dementia Unit Got to Go Through the Door: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Isolated Elders and Palliative Care Freedom and the Five Remembrances Isolated Elders in the Nursing Home End-of-life...

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Lucia McBee, LCSW, MPH, is a geriatric social worker who has worked with elders and their caregivers for 27 years.

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"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)." -from 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 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and adapted it to the particular needs of elders, their families, and professional caregivers. Mindfulness practices focus on abilities, rather than disabilities, in order to provide paths to the inner strengths and resources that we all possess. McBee's Mindfulness-Based Elder Care conveys the benefits of mindfulness through meditation, gentle yoga, massage, aromatherapy, humor, and other creative therapies to this special population. She provides clear, concise instructions for her program, as well as a wealth of anecdotal and experiential exercises, to help readers at all levels of experience. Hers is the first book to fully explore the value of mindfulness models for frail elders and their caregivers. Features of this groundbreaking volume include: Valuable tips for establishing programs to address each population's specific needs and restrictions Designed for short classes or 8-week courses Detailed experiential exercises for the reader Replete with case studies Clear, easy-to-follow instructions for elders and caregivers at all levels This innovative book is suitable for use with a variety of populations such as nursing home residents with physical and cognitive challenges, community-dwelling elders, direct-care staff, and non-professional caregivers.

Contenu

1. A Box for Father: Healthcare and Nursing Homes
   What is Healthcare?
   Trends in Aging and Healthcare
   What are the Alternatives?
   Elements of Care Provision
   What we value

2. Learning from the Inside Out: Mind-Body and Mindfulness-Based Interventions
   Mind-Body Medicine Overview
   Mindfulness
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Other Mindfulness-Based Programs
   Mindfulness Practices
   Other Informal Practices
   Practice
   Embracing Our Stress

3. Knock, Knock: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
   Aromatherapy
   Hand massage
   Creative therapy
   Humor
   Other CAM Modalities
   Section II. Practical Applications of Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Frail Elders

   Poem: Meadowbrook Nursing Home

4. The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care
   Teaching Mindfulness to Elders
   What Are the Issues
   Clinical Work With Older Adults
   Overview of MBEC Groups

5. Imagine This: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care For Frail Elders in the Nursing Home
   Overview
   Group Format
   Skills
   Considerations: Environmental
   Considerations: Population
   Endings
   Measuring Results: MBEC Research

6. Drifting Away From My Head to My Heart: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Elders With Dementia
   What Do We Know About Dementia?
   Communication With Persons With Dementia
   Behaviors Accompanying dementia
   Group Leader MBEC groups
   Complementary and Alternative Interventions on a Dementia Unit
   The Florence V. Burden Study on the Dementia Unit

7. Got to Go Through the Door: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Isolated Elders and Palliative Care
   Freedom and the Five Remembrances
   Isolated Elders in the Nursing Home
   End-of-life Care
   Homebound Elders
   Conclusion

8. Dance Like Nobody is Watching: Mindfulness-Based Elder Care and Creativity
   Visual Arts
   Poetry and Words
   Music
   Movement and Music
   Touch
   Taste and Smell
   Use of Nature
   Toys
   Humor
   Section III. Caregivers

9. Who Will Take Care Of Us? An Overview Of Mindfulness-Based Elder Care For Caregivers
   Informal Caregivers
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