Resources- Online
Resources- Online
Disease Education
Parkinson’s Disease
Huntington’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Dementia
Multiple Sclerosis
Neuropalliative Care
Mindfulness
- Apps:
- Calm - The #1 App for Meditation and Sleep
- Aura
- Meditation and Sleep Made Simple - Headspace
- Glo | Online yoga, meditation, & Pilates app for all levels
- The Chopra Center (Discover Presence: Meditation, Ayurveda, & Self Care | Presence)
- Insight Timer — #1 Free Meditation App
- Discover personalized meditation with the Balance app
- Center for Mindful Self-Compassion Offers resources related to self-compassion.
- Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
- Atlas of Emotions
- Mindful
- San Francisco Zen Center Offers online training in meditation.
- UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Offers many free resources including guided meditations in English and Spanish and a mindfulness app for phones.
- Tara Brach Offers free online meditations.
- Ignatian Examen Offers a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day.
Planning for the future: Advanced Care Planning and Living Wills
- Choosing a health care proxy
- Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)
- Five Wishes A complete approach to discussing and documenting your care goals.
- The Conversation Project Provides guidance for families to talk about living wills and advanced care planning.
- Prepare for your care Offers step-by-step guidance for advanced care planning.
- Aging with Dignity This is a national nonprofit agency with a mission to “affirm and safeguard the human dignity of individuals as they age, and to promote better care for those near the end of life.”
- Compassion and Choices Compassion & Choices improves care, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.
Healthy Eating
Miscellaneous Services and Supports
- Power for Parkinson’s Disease Free online fitness and speech therapy courses specialized for persons with Parkinson’s disease
- Stress Management: American Heart Association
- Building resilience – American Psychological Association
- HeartMath Has developed scientifically validated tools to help people reduce and avoid stress while experiencing increased peace, satisfaction, and enjoyment.
- Relish Activities for people with dementia.
- Apps to stimulate memory:
- Luminosity
- Elevate
- Peak
- Left vs. Right: Brain Games Google Android Apple App Store
- Train Your Brain Google Android Apple App Store
- Onnect Google Android Apple App Store
- Neuroracer
- Mindmate
Pain and meditation
- The Curious Frugal One meditation is led by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- The Pain Doctor
- Yoga Journal
- Mindful Article on research and case studies supporting the use of meditation for chronic pain.
Books, journals, CD’s, streaming
- John Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body (book, audio CD).
- Vidamala Burch and Danny Penman, You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Restore Well-Being (book)
- Vidamala Burch, Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, (MP3)
- Tony Greco, Meditations for Pain Recovery (book)
- Gael Chirella, Meditations for Pain (streaming)