Monica Eastway
The AWE Experience: A Simple Yet Profound Path to Becoming Well Beings
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow stronger - W.B. Yeats. AWE In a world that often feels...
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Monica Eastway
Eco Gerontologist
Let's Be The Future We Want to See in Our World!
Innovating A New Model of Living and Care
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Monica Eastway
- Mar 23
- 2 min
Greening Dementia Care: Nature is Our #1 Care Ally
Greening Dementia Care The impact of engagement with the natural world for individuals with dementia who live independently at home is a...
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Monica Eastway
- Mar 20
- 2 min
Transform Your Weekend into a Retreat: Prioritize Your Wellbeing and Earn CEUs
Americans are overworked, sick, and tired. The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet according to the latest...
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Monica Eastway
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Exploring the Pathways to Nature Connectedness: A Key to Improved Health and Sustainable Wellbeing
The Pathways to Nature Connectedness, Nature Connectedness Research Group The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our...
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Monica Eastway
- Mar 1
- 4 min
Bringing Care Outdoors: Enhancing Quality of Life for Older Adults in Residential Care Communities
As a care provider or activity director of a care home, assisted and memory care, you may be wondering how to improve the quality of life...
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Monica Eastway
- Feb 14
- 4 min
The Hidden Pain: Honoring Disenfranchised Grief
Grief is an inevitable part of the human experience, but when society fails to recognize or validate certain types of loss, the grief can...
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Monica Eastway
- Feb 9
- 6 min
Bringing Care Outdoors: The Benefits of Sensory Engagement with Nature for Older Adults
Quotes are from qualitative studies examining how adults (age 60+) describe their experience of the natural world. It is crucial to stay...
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Monica Eastway
- Feb 7
- 3 min
The Benefits of Nature for Older Adults: A Pathway to Mental Health and Well-Being
Our physical and mental well-being is essential for healthy aging. This is where nature comes into play. Research has shown that exposure...
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Monica Eastway
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Bringing Care Outdoors: A Path to Better Health for All Who Provide Care
Caregivers, Care Partners, Care Managers, Home Health Care Professionals, Physicians, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers,...
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Monica Eastway
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Do You Want to Improve Health and Wellbeing? Grow Reciprocal-Shared Care
Photo: A Bumblebee pollinating the manzanita flowers= Reciprocal-Shared Care How often do you think about the link between biodiversity...
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Monica Eastway
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
Do You Want Harmonious Longevity? Ho Ho Ha Ha, Your Way Gnome for the Holidays!
The Last Day of Gnomevember, 2022 was a whimsical Wednesday that did not disappoint! I was co-learning with children ages 3-5 at Forest...
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Monica Eastway
- Oct 7, 2022
- 4 min
"Just One More Thing We Do to Older Adults" Pets: Not a luxury, a Lifeline.
Photo: Meet BizKit, at work showing off and giving love to residents living in a care home. Sometimes, your pet picks you. –Julie Wenzel...
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Monica Eastway
- Sep 22, 2022
- 4 min
Happy Autumn! Stuck Indoors, No Fresh Air, Is it Time to Bring Care Outdoors?
Walking barefoot on a soft sand beach, hearing the waves crash along the shore, walking in a forest of changing seasons from summer to...
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Monica Eastway
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Cheers to All The GRAND Humans! Much Obliged!
Grand Humans are the best kind of grownups! Photo: My great-great-grandfather, great-great-grandmother, great-great-great grandmother,...
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Monica Eastway
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
Reconnect, Restore, Renew: Want to Learn Why You Need A Retreat?
"Home is where one starts from." T.S. Eliot When I began developing my first online learning course, it became clear that the best way to...
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Monica Eastway
- Aug 19, 2022
- 1 min
Get Your Brain on Nature!
Are you ready to Grow your Self Care Practice AND Enhance the Care you Provide? Are You ready to Restore and Renew? HOW? Get Your Brain...
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Monica Eastway
- Jul 14, 2022
- 4 min
Want a Cheap and Instant Fix? Is the Care Sector Burning You Out?
“Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir The Care Sector, paid and unpaid, can be incredibly...
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Monica Eastway
- Jul 12, 2022
- 5 min
Greening Health: Is Access to Nature a Human Right?
"Everybody needs beauty...places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike." ―...
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Monica Eastway
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Green Care 101: Ever Try AWE Walking?
Awe: inspires feelings of boundless wonderment Finding something to Awe about while walking in Nature, Does your Body and Brain good! Awe...
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Monica Eastway
- Jun 18, 2022
- 1 min
Eco Gerontology: Caring In, For, and With Nature
Eco Gerontology Supports A Relational Approach to Caring "provides a lens to understand caring beyond the provision of well-being...
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