- Title
- Facilitating mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety in older people : history, effectiveness, and future possibilities
- Creator
- Hungerford, Catherine; Hills, Sharon; Richards, Catelyn; Robinson, Tracy; Hills, Danny
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/190645
- Identifier
- vital:17669
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2022.2116510
- Identifier
- ISSN:0161-2840 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The origins of mindfulness go back some 25 centuries to Eastern teachings, including Buddhism and Hinduism. Mindfulness-based interventions gained credence in Western mental health settings in the late 1970s through the work of medical researcher Kabat-Zinn, whose interest in Eastern meditation led him to develop a program for stress reduction. Since then, mindfulness-based interventions have been utilized for various populations, including older people with anxiety. Group mindfulness-based interventions have demonstrated benefits for older people with anxiety living in residential aged care and the community. In primary care settings, innovative delivery models for group mindfulness-based interventions could be facilitated by nurses to support older people with anxiety to age in place with dignity. The benefits of mindfulness-based interventions suggest the value of integrating ancient Eastern techniques with modern Western strategies to achieve better health outcomes for older people with mental health concerns. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Relation
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing Vol. 43, no. 11 (2022), p. 1014-1021
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group
- Subject
- 4204 Midwifery; 4205 Nursing
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