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Spirituality and ageing
— the role of mindfulness in supporting people with dementia to live well | | Author(s) | Guy Robertson |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 19, no 3, 2015 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2015 |
| Pages | pp 123-133 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Psychiatric treatment ; Therapy ; Quality of life ; Well being ; Attitude ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The author reviews the literature on the role of mindfulness meditation and its general effectiveness in supporting people with dementia to live well. It also reviews the role of mindfulness in attention, emotion regulation, cognitive decline, physical changes in the brain, prevention, and quality of life. Spirituality has been defined as a process of personal transformation which in many cases can involve a blend of humanistic psychology and esoteric traditions. Meditation, even if practised in a secular fashion can be said to fit within this definition of spirituality. The author finds that the evidence for the relevance of mindfulness meditation in supporting people to live well with dementia is not yet conclusive. However, there is a growing body of evidence which suggests that this is a fruitful area for further research, if sufficient self-reported benefit from the application of mindfulness to people with dementia to warrant this being offered more generally; or if further research substantiates the quality of life benefits, then this could be an important development to accompany early diagnosis of dementia. If mindfulness were found to have a preventative effect, then that would be of practical importance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150904209 A |
| Classmark | EA: LP: LO: F:59: D:F:5HH: DP: 64A |
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