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February 22nd, 2012

Therapeutic Recreation has its roots in the military, believe it or not.  You could say the first known accounts of such work was done by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War (1853-1856) where she became best known for her special work in caring for wounded soldiers.  It wasn’t until the year 1981 that the National [...]

Tags: caregiver burnout, journal, Pranakriya Yoga, therapeutic recreation

January 11th, 2012

Sage advice from an 84-year-old when asked to share thoughts about happiness. This and many other lessons are shared in a new book called “30 Lessons for Living,” which offers practical advice from more than 1,000 older Americans from all socioeconomic backgrounds. The interviews are a part of the Cornell Legacy Project and can be [...]

Tags: Cornell University, gerontologist, Karl Pillemer, successful aging

December 27th, 2011

Amazon.com Widgets<A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_mfw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fspactime-20%2F8001%2F2a83b13d-23a0-4265-afff-18b4087bcea3&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> Caring Questions is a wonderfully written and very short book that is filled with a variety of conversation starters for care partners. Jennifer Antkowiak speaks from deep personal experience. She is a caregiver herself with five children and one step-child. She shared in the end-of-life journeys of her own mother, her [...]

Tags: barriers, mindfulness

November 23rd, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be thankful for.  When things are going well in our lives it is easy to come up with ideas of things we appreciate.  During difficult times it can be more challenging to bring thoughts of gratitude to mind. My senior year of high school, a friend of [...]

Tags: gratitude, journal

November 10th, 2011

November is a month where the words thankfulness, gratitude and abundance jump to the forefront of my mind.  Thank YOU, caregivers, for all that you do! Did you know that November is National Family Caregivers Month?  It is coordinated by the National Family Caregivers Association.  Honoring caregivers in this way started in 1994 with National [...]

Tags: caregiver burnout

October 19th, 2011

I LOVE cooking at eating which is why in addition to the space & time blog, I also write a food blog which you can check out here at http://thehangryfoodasaurus.blogspot.com/ As some of you may already know,  I am very into the local food movement and have been a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) member of [...]

Tags: CSA, local

September 7th, 2011

I am so grateful that one of my groups on LinkedIn shared this video today that I simply had to pass on because it was so amazing.  It is a trailer for a documentary called “Old On Purpose.” What makes it so amazing, to me, is that it exemplifies all the reasons why I have always [...]

September 1st, 2011

Special thanks to Barrett of Five Points Yoga, for inviting me to participate as a guest blogger on her recent blog post entitled “Vacation Breaks.” I have been taking yoga classes with Barrett for almost one year now and I’m really looking forward to having her back since she’s been on maternity leave.  We were [...]

August 29th, 2011

          Just wanted to share a link to a YouTube video recently posted by researchers at my alma mater, Penn State.  Researchers in the Nursing Department in the College of Health and Human Development are developing techniques and strategies for dealing effectively with difficult dementia behaviors such as delivery of oral [...]

August 15th, 2011

In that last two weeks or so I’ve been talking to friends who are dealing with the often-dreaded experience of moving.  For college students, apartment-dwellers and people who live in crowded cities, this becomes very cyclic.  It seems in Boston the most common lease-start date is September 1, which means that for some people this [...]