<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>counseling for older adults Archives - Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</title> <atom:link href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/tag/counseling-for-older-adults/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.nancyrhine.com/tag/counseling-for-older-adults/</link> <description>Specialist in Issues of Midlife & Older Adults</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 22:23:30 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">35362792</site> <item> <title>A New Year & A New Perspective</title> <link>https://www.nancyrhine.com/2016/01/16/a-new-year-a-new-perspective/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT,CPG]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:46:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Adult Children and Aging Parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Advocacy and Mental Health and Aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ageism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aging and Memory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aging parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[baby boomers housing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boomers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Creativity and Aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[elders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mindfulness and Aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[older women]]></category> <category><![CDATA[silver tsunami]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adult children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boomer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conscious aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[counseling for older adults]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gerontology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seniors]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nancyrhine.com/?p=3277</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>  A New Year & A New Perspective Dear friends and colleagues in the healing arts, 2015 presented me with some interesting challenges. After the death of my beloved mother and the near death and continued illness of my husband, I wondered how we healers can continue to serve our patients when we ourselves are in the […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/2016/01/16/a-new-year-a-new-perspective/">A New Year & A New Perspective</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com">Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> </p> <h2><a href="http://www.nancyrhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Nancy009-color.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2940" src="http://www.nancyrhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Nancy009-color-150x150.jpg" alt="Nancy009-color" width="150" height="150" /></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">A New Year & A New Perspective</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Dear friends and colleagues in the healing arts,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">2015 presented me with some interesting challenges. After the death of my beloved mother and the near death and continued illness of my husband, I wondered how we healers can continue to serve our patients when we ourselves are in the midst of tough times. Maybe some of you have come up against this question too.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">What I discovered is, as songwriter Leonard Cohen writes, “The birds they sang at the break of day. Start again I heard them say. Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. <em>There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in</em>.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">It’s this last part that has surprised me. What an unexpected gift is the grace and light that can emerge out of adversity. What I am learned continually deepens both my work and my home life.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">As we get older, we find ourselves adding to our toolkit of life skills. Mindfulness tools have reentered my life and work in a big way. And so has my intention to reach a much wider audience through teaching nationally about conscious aging. The need and demand for navigation help is so great as the boomer generation enters the unfamiliar terrain of older life.</span><a href="http://www.nancyrhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lost-confused-direction-sign.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2836" src="http://www.nancyrhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/lost-confused-direction-sign-150x150.jpg" alt="lost confused direction sign" width="150" height="150" /></a></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">If you have friends, family or patients in these populations below who you think I might be able to help or if you have questions yourself, please feel free to reach out anytime:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">People in their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s waking up to their own sense of aging – often through illness or other changes in themselves or their loved ones. They seek answers, solutions, and guidance.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Adult children of aging parents who feel confounded and frustrated about how to best help their parents through a myriad of difficult circumstances. They are the sandwich generation with aging parents, children and often grandchildren too.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Families where adult children and aging parents need to and want to come to some new understandings and find a closeness now to the extent they can while they can still can.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">People in their 80’s and early 90’s who are facing their last years with all that that entails – memories, regrets, fears, peace and contemplation – all healthy parts of this stage of life. Having a genuinely caring nonjudgmental skilled listener is so valuable.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">You might already know that there are very few psychotherapists in Marin who have advance training in gerontology. With my expertise in the fields of aging, communication, business, medicine and psychology, I am uniquely qualified to help your midlife and older patients, friends and family.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My offices are in Mill Valley and San Anselmo. Telephone appointments are also available for people who do not live close by. I provide a free initial phone consultation. And if I can’t help, I can often steer people to other beneficial resources.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><em>With warm wishes for a peaceful 2016,</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>415-378-6577</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><strong>nrhine@gmail.com</strong></span></p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/2016/01/16/a-new-year-a-new-perspective/">A New Year & A New Perspective</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com">Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">3277</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Loneliness Leads to Serious Health Risks for Seniors</title> <link>https://www.nancyrhine.com/2012/06/20/loneliness-leads-to-serious-health-risks-for-seniors/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:44:09 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[counseling for older adults]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gerontology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[loneliness and older adults]]></category> <category><![CDATA[retirement communities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seniors]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nancyrhine.com/?p=1899</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>In findings published recently from a UCSF study, researchers were surprised to find that even people who don’t live alone can be very lonely.   Many of us who provide counseling for residents in retirement homes find this to be true. Individuals can be living surrounded by many other co-residents and still feel massively lonely. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/2012/06/20/loneliness-leads-to-serious-health-risks-for-seniors/">Loneliness Leads to Serious Health Risks for Seniors</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com">Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">In findings published recently from a UCSF study, researchers were surprised to find that even people who don’t live alone can be very lonely. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Many of us who provide counseling for residents in retirement homes find this to be true. Individuals can be living surrounded by many other co-residents and still feel massively lonely. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">This loneliness, the UCSF study found, can result in a significant 59 percent greater risk of physical decline. Even worse, the hazard risk for severe loneliness was found to lead to a 45 percent greater risk of death.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">This points to the need for support for older adults in terms of understanding, empathy, attention, and genuine caring and engagement. Buddy systems for new residents of retirement communities is something often found to help introduce the new resident to potential new friends in their new homes. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Most importantly now, though, is for health professionals and caring communities to first realize the severe impact of loneliness on the physical, cognitive and emotional health of their beloved elders.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">For more information, click here to read the entire article on the UCSF study:</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><a title="Loneliness linked to serious health problems, death among elderly" href="http://health.universityofcalifornia.edu/2012/06/18/loneliness-linked-to-serious-health-problems-death-among-elderly/" rel="bookmark">Loneliness linked to serious health problems, death among elderly</a></h2> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com/2012/06/20/loneliness-leads-to-serious-health-risks-for-seniors/">Loneliness Leads to Serious Health Risks for Seniors</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.nancyrhine.com">Nancy Rhine, MS, LMFT, CPG</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1899</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>