tailieunhanh - Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults A Guide to Holistic Approaches to Healthy Aging

This book is a compilation of chapters written by experts in their field on various modalities and dimensions of holistic health care and aging. We envision the book to be a compendium of reliable and authoritative information on complementary and alternative therapies that health professionals may use as they seek to improve the health and quality of life of those in their care. Because the field is changing rapidly as complementary and alternative medicine translates itself into integrated medicine, and many modalities undergo scientific evaluation while others remain largely unexplored, any book on holistic health care is but a snapshot of a moving target. A generation ago, chiropractic was still. | Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults A Guide to Holistic Approaches to Healthy Aging Edited by Elizabeth R. Mackenzie PhD Birgit Rakel MD SPRINGPR P 1RI IR INC rn PANV springer publishing company NEW YORK About the Editors 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 University 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 on Aging. Dr. Mackenzie is the author of Healing the Social Body A Holistic Approach to Public 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. Birgit Rakel MD earned her medical degree from the Freie University of West Berlin Germany in 1988. Dr. Rakel completed her internship before moving to England where she received her General Practitioner GP training. She worked as a GP in London where she also completed a fellowship at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. Dr. Rakel relocated to the . in 1996 where she completed a residency and became board certified in Family Medicine. Since 2001 Dr. Rakel has been on the faculty of the Jefferson Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in .