Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care
Synopsis
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
- Copyright:
- 2002 Routledge
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781136402593
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 2020-05-15T08:36:05Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.