scholarly journals Is Yoga possible for elderly care?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siukan Law ◽  
Albert Wingnang Leung ◽  
Chuanshan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Psychological Conditions

Yoga is possible for elderly care as it promotes and balance among mind–brainbody functions through mental, physical, and emotional practices. Growing evidence has shown that yoga practices strengthen muscle, body flexibility, and boost the immune system as well as improve the physical and psychological conditions.

scholarly journals Penerapan Konsep Healing Environment pada Strategi Perancangan Pusat Pelayanan Lanjut Usia di Surakarta

Arsitektura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Mintari Nur Aziza ◽  
Hari Yuliarso ◽  
Hardiyati Hardiyati
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Healing Environment ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Natural Approach ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
Healing Garden

<p class="Abstract"><em>When entering the elderly phase, humans will experience a physical and psychological conditions declined, this causes the elderly to need special and different services compared to normal adults. In order to overcome these problems, also to reach Surakarta as an Elderly Friendly City, a Elderly Care Center is needed as a place that provides various services needed by the elderly. </em><em>This care center requires a healing environment concept that can create a conducive environment so that it can restore and improve physical and psychological health conditions of the elderly. In order to achieve healing environment, there are some approaches that can be done, such as the sensory approach (sense of sight, sense of touch, sense of hear, and sense of smell), natural approach (healing garden), and psychological approach. The method that used are observational studies to the community, field studies, and literature studies on related theories. The approaches og healing environment concept can be applied in the analysis of planning and design, so that will result the Eldelry Care Center with an environment where the elderly can easily adapt, feel comfortable, safe, and can support the recovery and improvement of the physical and psychological conditions of the elderly.</em><em></em></p>

Learned Placebo Effects in the Immune System

2014 ◽  
Vol 222 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Vits ◽  
Manfred Schedlowski
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Associative Learning ◽  
Placebo Response ◽  
Immunosuppressive Drug ◽  
Immune Functions ◽  
Placebo Effects ◽  
New Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Biological Variables ◽  
Experimental Approaches

Associative learning processes are one of the major neuropsychological mechanisms steering the placebo response in different physiological systems and end organ functions. Learned placebo effects on immune functions are based on the bidirectional communication between the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral immune system. Based on this “hardware,” experimental evidence in animals and humans showed that humoral and cellular immune functions can be affected by behavioral conditioning processes. We will first highlight and summarize data documenting the variety of experimental approaches conditioning protocols employed, affecting different immunological functions by associative learning. Taking a well-established paradigm employing a conditioned taste aversion model in rats with the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine A (CsA) as an unconditioned stimulus (US) as an example, we will then summarize the efferent and afferent communication pathways as well as central processes activated during a learned immunosuppression. In addition, the potential clinical relevance of learned placebo effects on the outcome of immune-related diseases has been demonstrated in a number of different clinical conditions in rodents. More importantly, the learned immunosuppression is not restricted to experimental animals but can be also induced in humans. These data so far show that (i) behavioral conditioned immunosuppression is not limited to a single event but can be reproduced over time, (ii) immunosuppression cannot be induced by mere expectation, (iii) psychological and biological variables can be identified as predictors for this learned immunosuppression. Together with experimental approaches employing a placebo-controlled dose reduction these data provide a basis for new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of diseases where a suppression of immune functions is required via modulation of nervous system-immune system communication by learned placebo effects.

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