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The field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is expected to grow tremendously in the next few years. In addition to an increase in the general population, the baby-boomer generation is quickly entering retirement and will likely take advantage of CAM increasingly as it ages. Although CAM research as applied to aging is just beginning and health professionals receive no special training in CAM and aging, the United States population still continues to employ it. For diagnoses that accompany aging such as cancer, neurological diseases, psychiatric disorders, and physical disabilities, CAM has often been used in addition to or in place of unsuccessful conventional methods of treatment. This new and up-to-the-minute compendium of reliable and authoritative information on complementary and alternative therapies seeks to provide information that older adults may use as they seek to improve their health and quality of life. Covering dietary means; physical, mental, and spiritual methods of treatment; and various types of therapies, this handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on complementary and alternative medicine available today.
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Preface by Elizabeth R. Mackenzie and Birgit Rakel Acknowledgments Foreword, Marc Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D. | |||||||||
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"This wonderful little book...concentrates on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)....Each of 16 chapters discusses a different CAM modality, and is written by an expert in the field. Each provides a superb overview and is highly referenced....This book is not an in-depth resource....It is, however, a much more portable and useful guide for physicians, nurses, social workers, and patient educators, as they seek to provide information to older persons. Highly recommended."--Choice "...a timely addition to the literature on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It has been edited by two highly skilled and knowledgeable professionals in CAM research and practice with contributions from a national sample of recognized experts in relevant fields. This important topic should be given a wide audience." "The book is most appropriate as an introductory text for non-CAM healthcare professionals who work with older adults."-- Karen B. Schmaling and Sandi J. Lane, from PsycCRITIQUES | |||||||||
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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 Univeristy 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 of Aging. Dr. Mackenzie is the author of Healing the Social Body: A Holistic Approach to Publich 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 in 1988. She completed her internship before moving to England, wehre 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 U.S. in 1996, where she completed a residency and became board certified in Family Medicine. Since 2001, she has been on the faculty of the Jefferson Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, one of the first academic medicine centers in North America that integrates CAM into patient care, teaching, and research. Dr. Rakel was recently awarded a Bravewell Fellowship, an appointment that allows her to further her training at the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine under the direction of Dr. Andrew Weil, MD. She presents nationally on topics related to aging and integrative medicine. | |||||||||
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