Hudson Valley and NYC Resources:

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  Resources:  Books, Films, Websites:                                               

 Normal Aging, longevity and the later third of our lives:  

• If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians by Neenah Ellis
• The Longevity Prescription: The 8 proven keys to a Long, Healthy Life by Robert Butler
• The Longevity Revolution:The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life by Robert Butler
• The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life’s Difficulties, Setbacks and Imperfections by Norman Rosenthal
• The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner
• Composing a Further Life:The Age of Active Wisdom by Mary Catherine Bateson and suggest the previous book also relevant at any age Composing a Life: Life as a Work in Progress​
  

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   End-of-life awareness, discussion of what matters most in our             

planning for end of life decisions and closure:  

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End   by Atul Gawande
• My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing “Slow Medicine”, the Compassionate Approach to Caring for your Aging Loved Ones by Dennis McCullough, MD
• Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You by Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, MD
• Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life,by Jane Brody
• Dying Well:The Prospect of Growth at the End of Life by Ira Byock
• Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
• A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
• When My Time Comes: Conversations about Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End, by Diane Rehm
  

   Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care:               

• A Dignified Life: The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Care, by Virginia Bell and David Troxel;  in Spanish:  Los Mejores Amigos en el Cuidado de Alzheimer 
• Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End by Tia Powell, MD
• The 36 Hour Day, A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss, by Nancy Mace and Peter Rabins     in Spanish:   El Dia de 36 Horas
• The Forgetting,  Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic, by David Shenk
• Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease, by Joanne Koenig Coste
• ​Creating Moments of Joy by Jolene Brackey

  Memoirs of living with Alzheimer’s:

• Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows, A Couple’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s, by Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
• Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
• Making an Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with Alzheimer’s, Machine Tools and Laughter by Elinor Fuchs
• Your Name is Hughes Hannibal Shanks: A Caregiver;s Guide to Alzheimer’s by Lela Knox Shanks
• Still Alice by Liza Genova

  Spiritual and Emotional Health, Healing, Meditation and Self-Care:

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life  by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Loving-Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg
• The End of Fear: A Spiritual Path for Realists  and Dante's Path by Richard Schaub with Bonney Gulino Schaub
• Article: The Meaning Of Healing: Transcending Suffering by Thomas Egnew, Annals of Family Medicine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1466870/

  Reconciliation and Unresolved Feelings in Families:

• Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live With Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss
• Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even If They Didn’t Take Care of You by Roberta Satow

  Living with serious health changes and challenges:

• To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed by Alix Kates SHulman
• Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying by Ram Dass
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor; her TED talk: https://www.ted.com/speakers/jill_bolte_taylor
• A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience by Bob Massie

  Functional, Integrative, Holistic Medicine and Nursing:

• Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil
• Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment by Keith Block
• Crazy Sexy Cancer: An Inspirational Story About Transformation in the Face of Adversity, film of Kris Carr’s journey healing a rare blood cancer
• Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee
• Reinventing Medicine by Larry Dossey
• God’s Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
• ​Integrative Nursing by Mary Jo Kreitzer and Mary Koithan
  

 
    Integrative Assisted Living:

• Hearthstone Assisted Living: http://www.thehearth.org/assistedliving.html
• Eden Alternative:  http://www.edenalt.org/
  

    Video and film on therapeutic Arts:

• Music and Memory: Alive Inside: Trailer [the power of music to reach into memories and the self]  http://www.aliveinside.us/#trailer,  has been available on Netflix
• Dance for PD Program with Mark Morris Dance Company, people with Parkinson’s feel calming and in group dance and learning:   http://danceforparkinsons.org/
• MOMA : Meet Me at MOMA   https://www.moma.org/meetme/  people with dementia respond to art
• Advanced Style:  http://www.advanced.style/the-advanced-style-documentary-film-page  older women who love fashion and style

    Miscellaneous Food As Medicine related books:

• Ultra-Prevention and Ultra-Metabolism, two books by Mark Hyman
  
• Grain Brain and Brain Maker, brain health by Neurologist David Perlmutter
  
• What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul by Deepak Chopra
• Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease by Bharat B. Aggarwal with Deborah Yost
• Crazy Sexy Juice: 100+ simple juice, smoothie and nut milk recipes to supercharge your health by Kris Carr
• Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno
• Dropping Acid, The Reflux Diet, Cookbook & Cure: A Groundbreaking Approach to Healthy Eating Featuring 75 Delicious Original Low-Fat Recipes by Jamie Koufman and Jordan Stern
• The Immune System Recovery Plan by Susan Blum with Michael Bender

   Hoarding:

• Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding & Compulsive Acquiring by Michael A.Tompkins and Tamara L. Hartl
• Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquring, Saving and Hoarding by David F Tolin, Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee

​Integrative Elder Care RN

Zoe Moffitt, RN-BC