Healing Advice Options

I'm currently working at a care home for the elderly/blind.
I've been working for about 3 months an i can see my-self working their for about a couple of years.
I can do a little bit of improvised energy healing but I'm not practiced, one of the reasons for getting the job was to get a better idea of how to handle it.

At the moment I'd much rather keep anything i do as covert as i can, also safety is a big issue, it's been my experience that powerful stuff can disrupt delicate existing balances,
some residences (one of which is 105!) are clearly gifted individuals while others are clearly coping with old age quite badly.

Here is a list of the major illnesses I'm working with here;
Blindness- over half of the residence are entirely or partially blind.
Muscle weakening- when an old person stops being able to move by themselves it's hard to keep what mobility they have left, which makes my life harder!
Bone's- this one old lady creeks like 4 people grinding their teeth whenever she moves, it's clearly agony!
Memory- When this goes it really effects the persons ability to cope with everything around them, especially if they are blind.
Diabetes- about half suffer from type 2, it can cause so many other health problems i can't begin to relate them all.
Dementia- it's fascinating to get to know these individuals but very hard to look after them, the confusion they can feel is quite terrible.
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Obviously i can't cure all these, i would be a fool for thinking i could but I'm still going to try my best for them.
Tips? Ideas? I'm an industrious fellow an I'm sure with some time i could implement something quite far fetched.

When i started the job i thought i might be able to create some kind of ESP for the blind, i still think i could, but it's going to be a LOT of work.
Astral constructs designed to bestow easy ESP? that's the ticket but I'm still dubious as weather or not to include anything else while I'm at it..

All advice/comments welcome!

Draw. A lot of the time we have people praying for us or in forums we have people mentioning that a family member is sick and perhaps we send energy to that family member. But in doing so we generally don't have permission. My position is that I don't do that sort of thing unless I do have permission from the individual being affected. But most people aren't healthcare professionals, or at least aren't acting in their roles of healthcare professionals. It may be that these things are a bad practice for anyone, but if you are in healthcare then you are aware of the permissions issue. Personally I have avoided the issue because I'm not entirely sure that it is ethical. That is why in the other forums to which I belong I don't join into the whole energy sending scene unless I have permission from the recipient. But perhaps I am wrong in avoiding this.

I can normally read people's energy when I am in close proximity to them, but when it is distance healing my perceptions are muted. I can't really tell much except that after awhile from my end of things my energy flow seems to slow down. I figure that the receiver has had their fill of energy. Presumably if the receiver doesn't want this energy they would reject it and I would feel that rejection. But perhaps I am wrong that the receiver is able to reject it. Perhaps whether or not they want it the receiver receives it; after all a medical doctor can force an injection on an unwilling client either illegally or with someone's permission who has power of attorney. Whether the patient wishes it or not, the injection takes effect. Is energy work so different? Yes I'm playing devil's advocate here.

But when I treat clients in person I can feel the client's energy in some detail. I find that using a specific intent does have an effect in the behaviour of the energy I emit. If I have the intent that if the client truly does not wish me to put more focus on energy work then the energy will simply be deflected into the earth. I believe that if a client were truly unwilling I would be able to perceive them rejecting the energy emitted; likely they would see the rejection in their body language. But I am not entirely sure. I can think of possible scenarios in which an unwilling client accepts the energy. I've been doing therapy including energy work a lot of years, but there are many things I do not understand about the nature of qi. I know how qi reacts in most situations from experience, however only a fool thinks he knows everything.

I have communications with a power animal (I call him Harvey), but communications are seldom in words. Through him I have indirect communications with other 'spirit guides' occasionally. I've found Harvey dependable, but I have read channeled materials written by various mediums and channelers. I don't know that the material I've read is particularly dependable. I usually have relied on my own experience much more than what I've read in books. My guide has been dependable in other areas of work, prompting me, pointing out things, etc. I try to confirm things through other more mundane means whenever possible.

I've found clients to be fairly open to the idea of energy work. I did work for a few years in a physio clinic in which about 90% of the clients were moslem and while most were moderates, some were probably fundamentalists. But most of that work did not involve any overt energy work. It was all pretty much whiplash cases. Most of the moslems and christians I've chatted with about it did not see energy work as demonic, just mysterious and perhaps intriguing. It may not fit into their particular religious paradigm, but they seemed to make room. I haven't treated many fundamentalists to my knowledge, but possibly this is because I live in a fairly large city in Ontario and anyhow people don't always divulge their religious beliefs---I have heard some weird ass stuff from clients though over the years. Perhaps if I were living in the USA in some part of the bible belt this might be a bigger issue. Perhaps if it came up frequently I would have a policy all worked out by now.