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  Care That Goes Hand in Hand

  By: Ann Catlin, LMT, NCTMB, OTR    |    Sunday, June 1, 2008
  A Symposium on Elder and Hospice Massage Plans are already well under way for the Hand in Hand Symposium 2009, sponsored by the Center for Compassionate Touch and the Cortiva Institute. The symposium is designed to be a forum for the creative exchange of ideas regarding program development, education, vision and shared resources between massage therapists

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  Age-Related Changes and Conditions, Part 1

  By: Ann Catlin, LMT, NCTMB, OTR    |    Sunday, June 1, 2008
  Older adults make up a growing clientele for massage therapists. According to the 2006 AMTA consumer survey, the use of massage among older adults has tripled in the past 10 years. Serving clients who are over age 65 requires that you have a basic understanding of age-related changes and the conditions many older adults are living with. While no two older

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  Serving Elders: Do You Have What It Takes?

  By: Ann Catlin, LMT, NCTMB, OTR    |    Tuesday, April 1, 2008
  Working with elders can be a successful area of practice and a personally rewarding experience. It's no secret that this is a growing scope of practice for massage therapists. More and more long-term care facilities are seeing the value of massage for frail elders, those with dementia and the dying. Massage therapists have increasing opportunities to serve

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  Creating Sacred Moments Through Compassionate Touch

  By: Ann Catlin, LMT, NCTMB, OTR    |    Saturday, March 1, 2008
  "When we touch another with a compassionate heart, it creates a sacred moment." These are the words that filled my awareness several years ago as I was leaving the care facility after having had a particularly poignant Compassionate Touch session with an elder gentleman suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease. I noticed that in that moment, my heart was

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  A Promising Future Comes From Serving Special Populations

  By: Ann Catlin, LMT, NCTMB, OTR    |    Tuesday, January 1, 2008
  I bring good news to those of you wishing to expand your practice to special populations! Massage is finding an accepted place in traditional settings that care for our elders, individuals with life-limiting illness or disability. Many of your peers are discovering opportunities in eldercare facilities, hospice and hospitals: Helen G., LMT, in Portland,

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