Finding the Bloom of the Cactus Generation: Improving the Quality of Life for Seniors

By Maggie Walters

The Cactus Generation explains 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599300117
• ISBN13: 9781599300115
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Lifesuccess Pub
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Exceptionally important and timely reading

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.