How to Reduce the Risk of Winter Falls for Aging Adults
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), falls are the leading cause of death from injury among older adults. Thom Disch has a passion for this topic and has been compiling statistics and stories related to this healthcare crisis for over a decade. Thom owns HandiProducts, a web-based business that showcases the dozens of products that he has developed specifically for preventing slips and falls. He also wrote “Stop the Slip,” which is packed with practical tips.
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Source: Minding Our Elders - January 14, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Dad's Decision Not To Be Treated for Cancer Upsets Daughter
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Dear Carol: There’s probably no right answer to what I’m asking but I felt the need to write, just for comfort. My mother died when I was in my teens so Dad has been the only parent that I’ve had for more than 20 years. I have no siblings. Dad’s now in his seventies and has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He’s beaten both melanoma and lung cancer in the past, but he tells me that this cancer should be slow growing and that he’ll probably die before it’s a problem so he doesn’t want to treat it. I want him to go full-on with every treatment possible. I watc...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 13, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Understanding Hospice Care: It's About Refocusing Priorities
Our culture is steeped in language that makes accepting the terminal diagnosis of ourselves or a loved one more difficult to accept than it needs to be. Doctors say, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing more we can do. You might want to look into hospice care.” Patients tell their doctors that they want “aggressive treatment,” until there is nothing else that can be done, then they will go on hospice care. The crux of these conversations is that medicine will do everything possible and then when you give up you will go on hospice care.
Read the full article on HealthCentral about how viewing hospice through the ri...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 12, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
How Music Therapy Can Increase Quality of Life for Those in Hospice
For many, music from certain eras can bring back memories of better times. For others, music soothes anxiety or gets them pumped up for a workout. When it comes to people living with dementia, music can help in all of those ways, but it can also help cognition. Hospice organizations are keenly aware of the soothing power of music. Sometimes the music may be used casually, by the facility or the family, knowing that this is a type of music that the person who is in the dying process had always enjoyed. Increasingly, though, employing trained music therapists has been favored.
Read the full article on HealthCentral about how...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 11, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
A Wee Wiggle in my Journey to Family
You're reading A Wee Wiggle in my Journey to Family, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Many of us have faced depression, struggled with low self-esteem, and other debilitating mental health challenges. My own journey with depression was a result of growing up with a rare blood disorder and being told I could never have children of my own. This completely changed my dreams of what family and life meant. Years later I suffered with a rare soft tissue sarcoma, yet, baffling the best of doctors, I survived. I’...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: donnagrantwilcox Tags: depression featured psychology self improvement best books Donna Grant Wilcox faith family mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
3 Strange and Surprising Ways Music Affects Your Well-Being
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Music is truly remarkable. That it lifts your mood, amplifies your emotions, and makes you dance is well-known. But it can also improve mental performance, reduce stress, and even alleviate symptoms of brain degeneration as these studies show.
So the next time you’re feeling stressed, you know what to do – grab the nearest headphones and start listening!You've read 3 Strange and Surprising Ways Music Affects Your Well-Being, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you've enjoyed this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. (Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: pjkaka Tags: creativity depression featured happiness psychology self improvement benefits of music music therapy pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Caregiver Boot Camp: Putting Ourselves In Another's Place
Please wipe this mess off of my face. Please!
Don't go so fast, I can't swallow! I'm not ready for a drink yet.
Is this bite going to be hot or cold? Sweet or bitter? Pureed meat or pudding?
Please wipe my face!
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Source: Minding Our Elders - July 24, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Multigenerational Living: The Pluses and Minuses of In-law Suites
When I was a teen, my parents had a home specifically built with separate quarters so that my grandmother could live with us and still maintain her privacy. For us, it was simply a decision that would allow Grandma to move in—nothing newsworthy at the time. Nowadays, with our tendency to label trends, sociologists would call my family’s arrangement “multigenerational living,” and Grandma’s special living area would be considered an “in-law suite.”
Read full article on Agingcare about how some families can make multigenerational living work:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - July 18, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Living While Dying: Role Models for Dying Well
Death. For some, it signals the beginning of a more perfect life. For others, it is the end. Ultimately, for everyone, death is part of the life cycle and no amount of medical intervention will change that. Filmmaker Cathy Zheutlin became fascinated by the way that different cultures and religions view the death experience, and in the process, she has made a remarkable film titled Living While Dying, which features people who are going through that process and their varying emotions.
Read the full article on HealthCentral about various philosophies surrounding death and watch touching interviews with those going thro...
Source: Minding Our Elders - July 17, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
How Music Therapy Can Increase Quality of Life for Those in Hospice
Hospice organizations are keenly aware of the soothing power of music. Sometimes the music may be used casually, by the facility or the family, knowing that this is a type of music that the person who is in the dying process had always enjoyed. Increasingly, though, employing trained music therapists has been favored. This type of therapy seems especially helpful with those who are dying from Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. Perhaps this is because in the final stage of dementia, people have usually moved beyond the point where conversation is possible.
Read more on HealthCentral about how music therapy can ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - July 16, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
The Healing Qualities of Music Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment
Various types of therapies have proven to be useful in alcohol and drug rehab programs, but music therapy is a tool that many individuals seeking treatment may not understand fully.
Studies have shown that music therapy provides significant healing, emotionally, physically, and mentally, and it may end up being an important aspect of your own substance abuse treatment.
What Is Music Therapy?
Music therapy is very different from music in the form of entertainment. It is a clinical and evidence-based therapeutic practice that utilizes music to accomplish goals within an individual’s therapy program.1 Each client’s music...
Source: World of Psychology - July 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kelsey Brown Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Creativity Habits LifeHelper Psychology Psychotherapy Recovery Substance Abuse Treatment Drug rehabilitation Music Therapy Source Type: blogs
Parallels and Divergence Between Neuroscience and Humanism: Considerations for the Music Therapist | Music Therapy Perspectives
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Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 16, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Music and heart health
What’s your “cheer up” song? That question popped up on a recent text thread among a few of my longtime friends. It spurred a list of songs from the ‘70s and ‘80s, back when we were in high school and college. But did you know that music may actually help boost your health as well as your mood?
Music engages not only your auditory system but many other parts of your brain as well, including areas responsible for movement, language, attention, memory, and emotion. “There is no other stimulus on earth that simultaneously engages our brains as widely as music does,” says Brian Harris, certified neurologic music ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Health Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Music Offers Many Cognitive, Emotional and Physical Benefits to Young and Old
“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” — Macklemore
Much research over the years has centered on the potential, perceived and realized benefits of music. In fact, the area of study has blossomed, growing from the preliminary findings of earlier studies to recent ones that built upon them. What’s exciting is the widespread and diverse benefits that music offers to everyone, young, old and in-between.
Musical training gives babies’ brains a boost.
Even before babies can walk or talk, they can benefit from receivin...
Source: World of Psychology - May 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Brain and Behavior Creativity Happiness Health-related Motivation and Inspiration Research Self-Esteem Stress Coping Emotional Support Music Therapy musical therapy Source Type: blogs
Soothe Your Stress Away with Music
If you regularly turn to music intuitively to relieve stress, you certainly aren’t alone. You can definitely tap into the power of music to bring healing to yourself.
Read along to discover the hidden psychological benefits of music that will make you feel better in times of stress. If you are not a music lover, the treasure trove of hidden benefits below just might convert you to begin singing a new tune as your go-to stress reliever.
Music can help relieve stress.
In one 2013 study, participants took part in one of three conditions before being exposed to a stressor, and subsequently took a psychosocial stress test....
Source: World of Psychology - February 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Creativity Memory and Perception Research Self-Help Stress Music Self Care stress management stress reduction Source Type: blogs
