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Namaste at EPOCH Senior Living of Brewster - Program wraps nursing home patients in warm embrace. - March 2011, Cynthia McCormick, Cape Cod Online, Massachusetts.

"Space for Comfort" - Hale Nani's Namaste Rooms stimulate dementia patients' senses of familiarity. - February 2011, Star Advisor, Hawaii.

Featured in both the Blacktown Advocate and Mt. Druitt St. Mary's Standard, this article discusses a success story of the implementation and benefits of the Namaste Care program.

NURSING staff at Minchinbury Manor did not know what to do when Gwen Grugan cried out. Ms Grugan, 88, is in the advanced stages of dementia at the Rooty Hill aged care facility. But since she was placed in the Namaste Care program, her anxiety has disappeared.
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Silent and Invisible; Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia   - The Namaste Care Program is designed to provide meaningful activities through therapeutic touch, music and life review to nursing home residents with advanced dementia.

Read Mathew's Story
(“Namaste, Giving Life to the End of Life")
Namaste, a Hindu term meaning, "to honor the spirit within" is a program for residents of long term care facilities in the terminal stage of Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. This program of continuous activities is a unique approach that has shown to provide a higher quality of life by having a staff person present for the resident who is in the last days or months of life. This story will provide an overview of the Namaste program recently implemented at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vermont.

“Joyce, you did a terrific job writing Matthews story. I cried when I read it but tears of joy that made his death have meaning to others”.
- Celia Wilk, Matthews widow

‘Namaste’ Care Honors the Spirit Within Advanced-Dementia Patients  
This story was written after Joyce presented Namaste Care for Medical Directors as their national meeting in Salt Lake City UT in 2008.


Namaste: Honoring The Spirit Within - A multisensory approach to Alzheimer's management.
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