{"id":859,"date":"2016-02-07T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=859"},"modified":"2016-02-07T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:03:37","slug":"natures-healing-touch-for-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/natures-healing-touch-for-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s Healing Touch for Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/natures-healing-touch-for-dementia\/tree_canopy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-863\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tree_canopy-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"tree_canopy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tree_canopy-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tree_canopy-320x214.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tree_canopy-145x97.jpeg 145w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tree_canopy-495x331.jpeg 495w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tree_canopy.jpeg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Author, Ecotherapist, and ICE member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/about-ice\/members-of-ice\/linda-buzzell-saltzman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Buzzell<\/a> runs a small but very active mailing list for eco-therapists, and there are often wonderful exchanges on it.<\/p>\n<p>One conversation thread I thought was of particular interest started with a link Linda posted to an <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2014\/08\/21\/gardening-impacts-brain-health.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">article citing research about the value of gardening and being outside<\/a> for the mental and physical well-being of people with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Linda&#8217;s post was followed up with a lovely personal comment from one of the list members about how her mother had spent her last years in a hospital-connected care center with a wetlands park where they would spend many peaceful hours together bird-watching. That post, in turn, was followed by one from another member sharing <a href=\"http:\/\/arroyograndecare.com\/healing-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\">two videos about Matthew Lysobey<\/a>, a visionary director of the Arroyo Care Center whose philosophy places the natural world at the center of keeping elders healthy and full of life.<\/p>\n<p>This series of exchanges was both inspirational and of practical value to me, so I thought I would share it here in case it would be of help to others, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, Ecotherapist, and ICE member Linda Buzzell runs a small but very active mailing list for eco-therapists, and &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/natures-healing-touch-for-dementia\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[248,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecotherapy-2","category-gardening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-dR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}