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a senior living community serving our wisdom keepers

a senior living community serving our wisdom keepersa senior living community serving our wisdom keepers

Research

Elder Ashram Academy has a fundamental mission of furthering research in the field of existential, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology. In fulfilling its endeavors, the Academy focuses on philosophical aspects as well as on practical applications of its approach on the fields of mental health, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and gero-psychology.


Founded in 1992, the Institute began as a groundbreaking center of integrative, whole-person services, learning, and training. Today, Elder Ashram Academy is a leader in applied gero-psychology and education of clinicians, care partners, and consultants who apply humanistic principles and values in a variety of settings.


The Academy’s transformative educational paradigm, valuing the non-mainstream approaches to learning and doing research attracts students from all over the world to our wellness and learning programs.


Some of our ongoing research projects are:


From Crone to Mentor  (pdf)

A study about the meaning of life for feminist baby-boomers in later years

by Doris Bersing, Ph.D.


The Courage To   Forget: An Interpretive Study of Exisential Concerns Revealed In Group   Processes by Individuals Living With Dementia (pdf)

by Suzan Bollich, Ph.D.


Reflections on the   Existential-Humanistic Approach to Eldership

by Rochelle D’Silva-SuriPoster at the 2nd Annual   Conference of The Society for Humanistic Psychology

Sponsored by the Division 32 of APA

Humanistic Psychology in Practice

August 11-13, 2008 — Boston, Massachusetts


Through The Circle: Mandala Art   and Dementia (pdf)

by Rev. Patti Goldstein, M.A.


The Meaning of   Intimacy to Older Adults in Assisted Living: A Phenomenological Perspective  (pdf)

by Liz Macera, PhD, RN, NP-C and Mats Christiansen, MNSc, RN


The Delicate Ecology of Delusion  (pdf)

A Cross-Cultural Case Study on the Inner Landscape of Elderly with   Dementia

A Research Proposal by Elizabeth Shaver and Kalyani Metha 


Life Journey   into Alzheimer’s Disease Study (pdf)

Exploring the Inner Landscape of an Elderly with Dementia utilizing   Existential Approaches

by Nader Shabahangi, Ph.D — Pacific Institute and Patrick Fox,   Ph.D — UCSF


Feminism Through   Time: Age, Difference, and Ideology (pdf)

by Tamar ShirinianThis project explores the   “schism” within feminist thought through space so that global issues, which   are pertinent in a postmodern and globalized world can be seen within various   scales rather than as a teleological process of “women’s rights” and Western   “feminist” issues. Within this work, I hope to discuss age, difference and   ideology not just within a temporal platform, but within scales of time,   space and self.


Open To Not   Knowing: Existential and Process–Oriented Approaches to Therapy with Elders   with Dementia (pdf)

A research study conducted and sponsored by The Pacific Institute’s   Assisted Living Facilities: Hayes Valley Care and Laguna Grove Care

by Puran Khalsa, PsyD, and Matt Spalding, EdM, PsyDThe   purpose of this study is to discern and assess the unique and effective   components of the phenomenological–existential and process–work approach to   the clinical treatment of elders with dementia in the Pacific Institute   Senior Communities in San Francisco, CA


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