Elderly role play benefits

[BARNETT WEISS]

Deepak Chopra in some of his early work on Quantum Healing spoke about a psychologist at Harvard who took a large number of octogenarians to a monastery for a day or a weekend. They were matched as well as could be done into two groups. One group went to one area of the monastery and the other to another. In one group, the people spent the day talking about their memories of when they were young. The other group acted as if they were back in their younger days including dancing to music from that time, looking at pictures of the time and role playing different scenarios from when they were young and to the best that they could eating from a menu prepared of foods that they had all spoken of as their favorites from those times. 
   
  Pictures were taken before and afterward of all participants as well as some basic physiology markers before and after.  It was astounding the difference between the two afterward. The group that played as if they were back in those days had actually reversed some of their aging characteristics markedly.  The supposition, though I am not sure they were able to measure this parameter, was that they play acting group had produced some additional measure of human growth factor far beyond what their aging bodies would have been capable of.  This would match with what they are finding from the use of stem Cells about which I spoke in aging persons and not in the use of some substitute or artificially produced human growth factor supplements about which there has been some less than favorable news recently in some circles. 
   
  Blessings all, Bud

HV Psychodrama <hvpi at hvc.rr.com> wrote:
              This seems to be the week for discussions about very serious disorders/diseases/states of being. I was asked today about the use of psychodrama with people with early to moderate Alzheimer's. Years ago I worked in a day treatment for elderly de institutionalized people who had lived for years at Hudson River Psych Center. They got great joy out of enacting childhood dreams of what they wanted to be when they grew up. But they didn't specifically have Alzheimer's. So,...has anyone out there had any experience using psychodrama with people with Alzheimer's disease? 
    
   
   
   
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