Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care
A Multi-National Perspective
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
Published:19th Apr '02
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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 <
ISBN: 9780789016683
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Weight: 521g
204 pages