Compassion Cultivation Resources

• Article, Why Caregiver need compassion:Kristin Neff, Why Caregivers Need Self-Compassion
• Video,  Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain, Richard Davidson, Neuroplasticity, Compassion, Meditation Researcher: Richard Davidson
• Book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff
• Meditation Practices, Self-Compassion Guided Meditations and Exercises, Kristin Neff
• Website,  Lion’s Roar  (Buddhist teachings and commentary)
• Website Forgiveness Project

Sound & Music Therapy

• Documentary Film, Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
• Article, Alzheimer Sound Healing Resources: Today Geriatric Medicine
• Book, Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music
• Article, Oliver Sacks’ When the heart still sings: Can music unlock communication with dementia patients
• Article, Oliver Sacks Wired for Sound
• Studies, Resources, Sound and Consciousness: Sound Meditation, Alexandre Tannous
• Article, Music and sounds in hospitals: In Turkey, Sufi music is used to decrease patient stress
• Video, Article, Disabled musicians create music from brainwaves
• Article, Soundwell Music Therapy, Saying Goodbye Through Music
• Book, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia
• Article, New York Times, New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room
• Sound Therapy Glossary, Mitch Nur, Sound Therapy Glossary Instruments, Philosophers, Traditions
• Website, The Chakra Institute, Balance, Sound Awareness
• Book, Hans Jenny, Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena & Vibration
• Article, Musical Therapy in Chinese Medicine
• Video, Ted Ed, How playing an instrument benefits your brain – Anita Collins

Herbal Medicine & Aromatherapy

• Book, Robin Rose Bennett, Healing Magic. A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living
• Book, Robin Rose Bennett, The Gift of Healing Herbs
• Website, Wise Women Healing Ways
• Website, Avena Botanicals
• Book, Deb Soule, The Woman’s Handbook of Healing Herbs: A Guide to Natural Remedies
• Book, Susun Weed, Healing Wise
• Book, David Hoffman, An Elders’ Herbal: Natural Techniques for Health and Vitality
• Book, Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal Healing for Women
• Book, Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health
• Book, Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants
• Article, Smudging: Burning Herbs To Purify Air Of Harmful Bacteria And Energies
• Research Study, ‘Killer Germs’ Obliterated by Medicinal Smoke

Movement, Body & Breathwork

• Book, Deborah Davis, Women’s Qigong for Health and Longevity
• Video and Website, Cynthia Hutchison, Body Prayer
• Website, Healing Touch Program
• Book, B.K.S Iyengar, Light on Yoga

Radical views on Old Age and Elders

• Magazine Parabola ,Vol. 05:1, Archived Edition, The Old Ones
• Book Helen M Luke, Old Age
• Audiobooks Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Dangerous Old Woman Series
• Website Changing Aging
• Book Dr.Bill Thomas, What are Old People For? How Elders Will Save the World
• Book Jean Shinoda Bolen, Goddesses in Older Women 
• Book Voices and Visions of Aging: Toward a Critical Gerontology
  

End of Life Care, Preparation and Being with Dying

• Book. Joan Halifax of Upaya Zen Center Being with Dying
• Article. Joan Halifax, The Nine Contemplations of Atisha
• Video. Ted Talk by BJ Miller of Zen Hospice, What really matters at the end of life
• Book, Evan Thompson, Dying, What Happens When We Die

Benefits of Meditation, Studies

• Research Study, Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation.
• Research Study, Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density
• Article, Research Study, Neurobiological Changes Explain How Mindfulness Meditation Improves Health

New Approaches to Dementia and Elder Care

• Book, Mindfulness-Based Elder Care: A Cam Model for Frail Elders and Their Caregivers
• Research Study, Marguerite Manteau-Rao CEO, Presence Care Project, Understanding Alzheimer’s: 8 Common Myths Debunked
• PDF Resource Checklist, The Essential Checklist For Good Dementia Care
• Research Study Sensory stimulation – A way of creating mutual relations in dementia care
• Book Oliver Sacks Chapter 29: Music and Identity: Dementia and Music Therapy from Musicophilia
• Blog and Book Anne Davis Basting, Forget Memory
• Video Oliver Sacks Alzheimer’s and the Power of Music