Complementary And Alternative Medicine for Older Adults: A Guide To Holistic Approaches to Healthy Aging - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0826138055 ISBN 13: 9780826138057

Casa editrice: Springer Pub Co, 2006

Riassunto

The field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is expected to grow tremendously in the next few years. In addition to an increase in the general population, the baby-boomer generation is quickly entering retirement and will likely take advantage of CAM increasingly as it ages.

Although CAM research as applied to aging is just beginning and health professionals receive no special training in CAM and aging, the United States population still continues to employ it. For diagnoses that accompany aging such as cancer, neurological diseases, psychiatric disorders, and physical disabilities, CAM has often been used in addition to or in place of unsuccessful conventional methods of treatment.

This new and up-to-the-minute compendium of reliable and authoritative information on complementary and alternative therapies seeks to provide information that older adults may use as they seek to improve their health and quality of life. Covering dietary means; physical, mental, and spiritual methods of treatment; and various types of therapies, this handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on complementary and alternative medicine available today.

Each chapter or article includes:

• Brief definition of modality
• Anecdotal reports of usefulness
• Discussion of scientific evidence for and against modality
• List of resources that reader can use to find further information

Examples of therapies covered include:

• Art & Music
• Massage
• Acupuncture
• Meditation
• Homeopathy
• Ayurveda
• Aromatherapy

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L'autore:

Elizabeth R. Mackenzie (PhD), has been a researcher and educator in the field of complementary and alternative medicine for two decades. Dr. Mackenzie completed her doctoral dissertation on health belief systems and community-based healthcare at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, whereupon she joined the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and conducted research on cultural issues in health and healthcare. As a Research Assistant Professor in the division of geriatric medicine, she was the principal investigator of a study on aging, mental health, and prayer. Dr. Mackenzie currently teaches courses on humanistic medicine in the School of Arts and Sciences at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, where she is a Senior Fellow in the Writing Center, a Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Science department, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Aging. Dr. Mackenzie is the author of Healing the Social Body: A Holistic Approach to Publich Health Policy, numerous journal articles, and several book chapters. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Mackenzie is a long-time student of yoga, qigong, and body psychotherapy.

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• Editore: Springer Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826138055
• ISBN 13: 9780826138057
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Redattore: MacKenzie Elizabeth R. Ph.D., Rakel Birgit M.D.