Why Gardening is so important for good health!
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- čas přidán 17. 04. 2024
- Dementia is an increasing concern, especially among the older population. What can we do to help alleviate suffering and increase quality of life?
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“The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.”~DF Gurney
Beautiful!
My parents had this on their bird bath back in the 70s, and I have never forgotten those wonderful words. xxx
One of my favorites!! 💚
I have my mom's plaque with that saying in the garden. Absolutely love it, I'm 65 now, and remember it in her garden some 40 - 45 yrs ago.
Such a beautiful quote
I believe mum would still be with us if she'd been 'allowed' to keep a connection with nature this last 4 years instead of being kept behind closed doors for much of that time. When we were able to be together though, she'd love to look at flowers in the garden of homes in the local area.
Sadly her dementia took her life a few weeks back after being kept from nature once again for the last four weeks of her life while in hospital. God rest her beautiful soul x
I feel your pain for losing one’s mother is almost unbearable, but to continue to live a good life is the best prayer we can offer.
I understand you so well. I'll think of your mom and all the other people who lived through this disease as I'm in the garden today. Thank you for sharing that.😇🙏❤️🥀
Sending love to you Angela. I too lost my beloved Mum to this cruel disease ❤
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Gardening can take our mind off our troubles and delight us in the gifts nature offers!!!
That is so true, friend.
I think I'd fall down dead if a doctor in the US said " you have a garden ~ get out an garden" 🧐🤣
Truth. Sad! 😢
Gardening helps me tremendously. My husband has early stages of dementia & has prostate cancer. No relatives anywhere close by.😢
That’s hard for you both.
Thank you for this content! My husband has early onset Alzheimers, he's not at state pension age yet, and his happiest place is in the garden. It keeps him physically active, it helps him exercise his mind by recalling plants that we've grown for decades, and keeps his hands busy sowing seeds etc. This is also useful as he's just been diagnosed with Parkinsons too, so his hands need to be used as often as possible to keep them moving. It's calming for him too, and spends hours outside as the weather permits. The benefits of gardening and being in nature are immense. Blessings to you.❤
Many blessings your way, Carol.❤
@@marianfrances4959 thank you for your kindness! May blessings be abundant for you for being so thoughtful ❤️
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Wonderful time together and to enjoy the glorious grace of nature ❤
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My husband had dementia , he didn't stop getting out and doing some kind of yardwork until almost the end I agree with you 100% .
Oh Colette, I am becoming quite forgetful of late. Infact I am now making a huge effort to stay focused and mindful. My garden is my sanctuary and the only place I truly relax. Thank you so much for your video.
All the best xxx
You may be a really healthy eater…Check out what you’re eating as too many carbs and processed food can cause those issues.
I think any form of being outside is wonderful medicine for the body, mind, and soul. I love being in nature, hiking, or just working in my garden.
So true.
Another lovely video, thank you. I am the caregiver for one of my best friends who has dementia. She is still in her own home and remembers me thank goodness but most of all she knows i still love her. Its tough sometimes but she has been a wonderful friend so i hang in there. She doesnt garden saddly but i do for my sanity. Blessings from New Zealand. ❤
I just list a dear friend to dement so I am deeply touched by your deep offering of love for your friend
You are absolutely right! Gardening is good medicine.
Blessings to you!
Gardening makes me forget myself.... I drop my ego...feel at one with the world when a beautiful bee lands on one of the flowers I have sown especially for her❤
I recently began gardening for this season and happily realized that the more I accomplish each day, the more slowly time seems to pass. It has altered my perception of the passage of time and I am delighted! Love and Blessings Colette 🌻🪴🐕
Yes, gardening has many benefits. I couldn't agree more.
I had this strange meeting with an older gentleman a few years back now.
He was struggling I could see that.
But it was a wonderful thing to see in a way. He came strolling through my garden you see…just enjoying his walk looking at the flowers and the trees.😂
We didn’t talk just a nod.
After a while I told him (kindly of course) to leave.
I later found out that he lives in the elderly home up in the village and loves his long walks.
He looked so serene.
Calmly smiling just walking around.
I think we all need that,
Be in the moment just take it all in.
Good Evening from Sweden....🇸🇪🤗💖
So happy to hear that more and more people understand the importance of "The green evironment" and what it does for the health.... Here in Sweden we have "green" health rehabitation" which is very common and we can get prescription from doctors giving "orders" about to get out in nature and spend time there or taking walks in Forrests etc.
I am a trained Garden Architect and during my Studies at the Agricultural University here in Sweden, we had to study and do researches on how "the green enviroment" affected the health, especially when it comes to Dementia and even Depression, and it showed only very good results...
And I am a living example of that ..🤗
I myself, was on "sick leave" for a longer period before my studies. Being "burned out" with Depression, I was lucky, to be able to do a longer rehabilitation at a graveyard where we maintained the Graves and the rest of the Churches Garden every day. The Gardens around the Churches here, are mostly very lush and green, so you feel very calm and traquil there.
And it was after this period I decided to study and to become an Garden Architect..
And it is also a common knowledge that people staying in Hospitals, recover faster if they have a tree or a green garden (even a very small one) to look at through their window, then if they only had concrete buildings or something else that didn't where from the green and living nature, to look at...
I hope you and Patsy are having a wonderful Evening!
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Very interesting indeed!
Hiya Colette, I’m in health care and have dealt with dementia clients and I 100% agree with your comment in re to all a garden can give. Blessings luv Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Ah...another beautiful visit! Thank you, Colette!! What a lovely way to explain how gardening can help dementia. It makes perfect sense. And your great-grandmother's table!! I have a similar table of my great-grandmother's. She was born in April of 1896. She would have been 128 years old on the 7th. I am 63 years old and was her first great-grandchild. We were extremely close. We gardened together. She told me how to bake - standing on chair, next to her. We did many things together. When she passed - my grandmother (oldest) got her table. When my grandmother passed - my Mother got her table. When my Mother passed in 2017 - I got her table. I am writing to you from my Mother's desktop computer. That sets atop of my great-grandmother's table. What a blessing our Ancestors are. Blessed Be, Colette and little Patsy. 👼
What wonderful memories!
Awww Colette this is a lovely video and very very true, my wee late dad had dementia and he loved the garden. There was a wee stoat at the time living in the old stone wall and the smiles of him when he used to catch a glimpse of it. I miss him so much 😢 xx
Gardening or walking in nature is so calming. I paint and do other crafts and I find that so soothing and relaxing!!❤️
Wonderful Colette, Thankyou. 🥰🇬🇧
Absolutely love gardening, my Mama turned 100 on Tuesday and she still loves her flowers to take care of. Patsy "The Little Explorer". Have a great day , Colette.
A great age! Happy birthday 🥳
My daughter in her early nursing career worked in nursing homes for the elderly, memory care units. She felt being outside in the inner garden at the facility helped them the most. I remember when i was a child sunning porches in nursing homes and hospitals. The care givers would wheel and walk individuals onto a sunning area. We dont have that any longer. They keep most sick or cognitive declining individuals inside. Its really a sad state. Nature has healing.
Absolute truth....... Blessings and greetings from Daggy Kiel Germany ☘️☘️☘️and a big kiss for little Patsy
So great to see people from Germay in this lovely community.
Ich bin eine Schwedinn und ich liebe Deutschland. Ich habe zwei cousine in der nähe von Stuttgart .💖🤗
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Thank you Collette your garden is so healing 💚
It is very amazing that the simplicity of being able to get outside and to enjoy the time with the energies of life surrounding you.
The grace of the many different blessings that exist now as we are now in the magnificence of nature, the air,sounds ,smells and the growth of the many different types of plants and trees and the animals that are in a healthy relationship with the environment.
It is a process of healing just to be present in life with the energies of our Earth 🌎 ❤😊
Gardening is a whole adventure of discovering new understandings and the ability to be present with contentment and creativity. It is very healing on all levels ❤🌱🌿🍀🌲🪺⚘️🪻🦋🐝🌹🌷🌼🌻🪷🌸🪻💐🪺🍀🌱🌳🕊🐸🐢🦚🐦🏕🌈🌊
I love you Colette❤️
Thank you Colette.
This a very relevant video , more so now than any other time.
As i am so aware in my work that dementia and alzheimer's is on the rise and it is alarming that younger people are developing this illness.
I just need to say.....that music or songs that they would have known has a WONDERFUL effect.
Thank you so much for this video.
STAY CLOSE TO NATURE
BLESSINGS TO YOU AND PATSY ❤❤❤❤❤XXX
This was such an inspiring and beautiful video. Also, I did not comment in a previous video that I would really enjoy seeing more of your meal prep. videos because you eat so healthy. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us.
Perhaps another thing about walking in nature like you do is to look carefully at all the things around you. Look at all the details. The leaf the flower the bark the stem. Unfortunately many people have no developed and eye for things. Birdwaching is another marvelous activity; Thank you
I am so grateful to see you are still producing videos and sharing in your wisdom. I was afraid you had given it up. This green witch - a lone dweller of the woods, a cultivator like you - sends you lots of peace and love from the mid-Atlantic of the U.S.
I never stopped...and hope to continue a long while yet!
I love your beautiful videos so much, Collette. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and beauty with the world. 💕🙏
Gardening is good for the soul.xx🐝🐝
I have 2 1/2 acres with an old farmhouse. Finding help even in town is rare.
Little bit each day will get a lot done over all. I do a little /tiny bit each day. At the time very tiring but after good job done. 😊😊
I just read an article that said studies show that people who garden live much longer. GROW ON!!!!!
True!
Beautiful garden I work with dementia residents they like to see the trees and flowers birds 🐦out the window xx
Oh Colette - this is such a lovely topic and you are spot on! The sadness of Alzheimer's, but also the dignity of those suffering with it. For those of us with family that has dealt with this it's just so meaningful. Appreciation of the natural world -animals and plants is a deep, ancient part of the brain, like music that lives in the Amygdala which is the last part of the brain to be affected as it also controls functions like heartbeat and breathing. As for the proven power of music with Alzheimer's even when most other cognitive functions have left, I highly recommend searching "Former ballerina with Alzheimer's Performs Swan Lake Dance" in CZcams. Have a tissue ready, not for the sadness of the disease, but the grace and inner strength of the person! Thanks so much for this video!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oh yes indeed! Music is calming and healing ❤️🩹
@@bealtainecottage In my grandmother's last year she had lost the ability to speak or recognize our names, but she loved gardening and we'd bring her flowers, especially Sweet Peas and she would still bring them to her face to smell and enjoy. She could not speak but she could still amazingly sing so we always just sang songs with her. And lastly and the deepest part of the brain she had was love. She could not speak and didn't know who we were except she loved us and we loved her and up till the last when we came close she'd pucker up her lips to kiss us. It's such an important and meaningful (and thoughtful!) topic so thank you again especially for this one. My beloved grandmother will happily be with me all day now. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
I agree 100%
Amen to all that! 👍😎🇨🇦⚘🌸💮🏵🌱🌲🌿🌾🌺🌹🌳💐🌲🌻🪴💙
Colette I work in senior homecare. I visited two separate gentlemen today both near 90 out gardening. The one had started at 5am and had also made bread and a pot of homemade veg soup. I cannot understate the importance of what you said. It seems to me that those who isolate themselves inside are at great risk. We have a wonderful community garden beside our local nursing home and frequently residents are taken there for walks or by chair and they do respond. Vitally important
Thank you for those precious musings and recommendations.🙏🏻 (my father had a short vascular dementia around his 88th birthday- but he died from pneumonia)
I agree 100%, being outside and being in the garden is so important for physical and mental health
A lovely video. x
Thank you, Colette for this video. Being in nature, even in a garden gets you in touch with the greatest healer of all Mother Earth! Listening to the birds is very calming a therapy for all I think. Blessings to you and little Patsy ❤❤
Gardening & nature are the best medicine for the body, mind, & spirit❤❤❤👌
Ooh this is such a great nudge for me... My mum has dementia. I now know what to get for her birthday - a gardening box so that she can garden without too much bending!!
Also when plants flower and you had forgotten that you'd planted them - the joy of surprise can be immense!! 🥰🙏🤗
Well Colette. I work in mental health services. Gardening and contact with the soil and the season is a superb way to improve well-being
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
❤❤❤❤thank you so much for sharing your gardens are awesome have a wonderful weekend ❤
❤I love listening to your wisdom!
I appreciate that!
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I have cancer and one of the first things my oncologist told me was no gardening or houseplants. I've cheated a bit using mask and gloves potting up a few herbs. I miss my garden so much!
I don’t understand the correlation between the both…
This is a good reminder Colette. I hope everyone can get outside and enjoy life in a garden, or park, or near some trees and flowers and living things!🐇
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Absolutely beautiful garden! 🌿
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Dr Michael Mosley has just done a podcast on the mental benefits of gardening
I’m so sad my dads 83 and loved to garden and grow his veggies, but now his mobility is too bad to get out, I noticed a further decline in him I’m so sad he can’t enjoy his passion 😢
I’m sure you’ve considered a wheelchair… It must be really hard on your poor dad…so sorry 😔
@@bealtainecottage yes I thought he could still do his tomatoes in pots it’s hard though x
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As a very cynical retired RN, do Not have an annual flu shot with all that aluminum.Who wants dementia , and who tells this story.
We're lucky in the US, our life expectancy has been falling for years!
Sad but true 😔
Other than being on the water or by it, gardening is the next best thing in my book. What is that tree with the sweet dangling flowers at 3:33.?
Kanzan cherry
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Thank you.
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