Spiritual growth and care in the fourth age of life /
Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life explores the spiritual dimension of ageing and investigates the role of pastoral and spiritual care in helping the frail elderly cope with end-of-life issues. Focusing on the experience of nursing home residents and anecdotes gathered in interviews...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2006
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The spiritual dimension of ageing and people in need of care
- The studies of frail older people and staff in aged care
- Assessment of spirituality and spiritual needs : a developmental approach
- Meaning in life and frailty in the later years
- Wisdom, final meaning, the spiritual journey and frail older people
- Spiritual reminiscence : provisional and final meanings in frail older people
- The spiritual journey and mental health amongst older adults in need of care
- Meeting the challenge : older people with memory loss and dementia
- Worship and use of ritual among older people : working in multifaith and multicultural societies
- Vulnerability and transcendence, living in a disintegrating body and failure to thrive
- Vulnerability, transcendence
- Living with chronic physical health problems
- Relationship and intimacy needs among nursing home residents
- Grief, death, dying and spirituality in an aged care facility
- Ethical issues in the fourth age of life
- The model of spiritual growth and care in the fourth age of life.
