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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782673103321

Autore

McBee Lucia

Titolo

Mindfulness-based elder care [[electronic resource] ] : a CAM model for frail elders and their caregivers / / Lucia McBee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub., c2008

ISBN

1-281-80658-7

9786611806583

0-8261-1529-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

362.16

Soggetti

Frail older people - Diseases - Alternative treatment

Frail older people - Nursing home care

Alternative medicine

Meditation

Caregivers

Mind and body

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

""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