This booklet is to offer ways for caregivers & family to decrease their own stress levels & also give some easy ways to work with the one diagnosed, using the powers of Laughter Yoga. It also offers personal insights for Laughter professionals from my extensive background conducting Laughter Yoga in Memory Care Units.
Natalie Dattilo, Instructor of psychology in the Harvard Medical Schools Psychiatry Dept. says “laughter has a lot going for it. It makes us feel good… and Health care is expensive; if we can find a tool that is as simple as laughter, that is free for the most part, with no side effects and has no contraindications, that would really be great.”
When it comes to dementia, laughter could very well be the best medicine. New research indicates that laughter may be just as effective as antipsychotic medications for reducing anxiety in elderly people with dementia. Alzheimer’s and other dementias have no truly effective treatments, a fact that has compelled experts and laymen alike to seek alternative ways of working with these diseases.
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