A new book just out called "The Cactus Generation" talks about the benefits of touch for seniors, especially those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's patients cease to recognize family members by sight or by the sound of voice, but they will always recognize their touch. Touch becomes another form of communication; one which we are not accustomed to. It breaks through the barriers of Alzheimer's disease. "Cactus Generation" explains how to stay connected to your loves ones through the personal story of author, Maggie Walters.
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Margaret Walters attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and received a Bachelor of Arts in French language and literature. While living in Great Britain, she earned a master's in education from the University of London. She taught at a high school, where she worked with some disability-related programs, including Kids on the Block, a children's program aimed at increasing awareness of disabilities, and Riding for the Disabled, where she worked with children suffering from cerebral palsy. After returning to the United States to live in California, she continued to teach disabled and disadvantaged children through the public school system. She also attended the National Holistic Institute and became a certified massage therapist. Ms. Walters became certified in cortical field re-education and has had extensive training in craniosacral therapy. She has volunteered at the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic, a complementary clinic for low-income women with cancer, and has worked with clients at other care facilities.
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Exceptionally important and timely reading,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cactus Generation (Improving the Quality of Life for Seniors) (Paperback)
In "Finding The Bloom Of The Cactus Generation: Improving The Quality Of Life For Seniors", author Maggie Walters draws upon her many years of training, experience, and expertise working with very elderly patients in nursing homes and assisted living facilities (most of whom suffered from serious mental and/or physical ailments) to offer nursing home staff and concerned family members with an instructive introduction to how to best maximize the quality of a resident's physical and mental well being through gentle massage, patient listening, and a variety of alternative therapies. Now that the baby boom generation is approaching retirement, the need for the kind of insights and understanding that Maggie Walters has to offer makes "Finding The Bloom Of The Cactus Generation" exceptionally important and timely reading -- especially for nursing home and assisted living facility caregivers, as well as the non-specialist general reader with concerns over how best to help an aging parent enjoy life to the best extent possible for them.
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