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Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care

A Multi-National Perspective

• By James W. Ellor

• Price: $39.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 208
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 10th April 2002
• ISBN: 978-0-7890-1669-0

About the Book

How can you foster spiritual growth in older people?

This multidisciplinary work re-examines issues of aging with dignity and spiritual meaning. Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care: A Multi-National Perspective brings together chaplains, pastors, counselors, and health care practitioners in all walks of gerontology from around the world to present a fully rounded picture of the spiritual needs and potentialities of this fast-growing population. It also includes a study of the spiritual awareness of nurses working in six different nursing homes, as well as a model for a parish nursing practice that focuses on the aged.

Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care addresses urgent issues for older people, including:

• social and spiritual isolation
• the wisdom of the aging
• the need for intimacy
• sexuality among older people
• living with dementia
• the spiritual dimensions of caregiving

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Section 1. Ethical, Theological and Biblical Dimensions
• Ethics and Ageing in the 21st Century
• Beyond the Biomedical Paradigm: Generating a Spiritual Vision of Ageing
• Outward Decay and Inward Renewal: A Biblical Perspective on Ageing and the Image of God
• ‘Wholeness, Dignity and the Ageing Self’: A Conversation Between Philosophy and Theology
• The Getting and Losing Wisdom
• Section 2. Issues of Ageing and Pastoral Care
• Ageing and Isolation: Is the Issue Social Isolation or Is It Lack of Meaning of Life?
• Pastoral Support for Late-Life Sexuality
• Understanding the Ageing Process: A Developmental Perspective of the Psychosocial and Spiritual Dimensions
• Through a Glass Darkly: A Dialogue Between Dementia and Faith
• When Words Are No Longer Necessary: The Gift of Ritual
• The Spiritual Dimension of Caring: Applying a Model for Spiritual Tasks of Ageing
• The Challenges and Opportunities of Faith Community (Parish) Nursing in an Ageing Society
• Epilogue
• Radical Discipleship for an Ageing Society
• Index
• Reference Notes Included