Mindfulness-based elder care : a CAM model for frail elders and their caregivers / Lucia McBee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McBee, Lucia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frail older people--Diseases--Alternative treatment.

Frail older people.

Frail older people--Nursing home care.

Alternative medicine.

Meditation.

Caregivers.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

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)."". -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-B

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Section I. Foundations; Section II. Practical Applications of Mindfulness-Based Elder Care for Frail Elders: POEM: MEADOWBOOK NURSING HOME; Section III. Caregivers; Section IV. Conclusions; Section V. Appendices; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-80658-7

9786611806583

0-8261-1529-2

OCLC:

476263634