Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life

By: Elizabeth MacKinlay

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Paperback | 16 April 2006

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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, MacKinlay sensitively presents the struggles facing older people in need of care, such as loss of independence and privacy. Her findings show that despite ill health, loneliness and depression, older people near the end of their lives find meaning and support in (re)discovering their spirituality, and that this is not just the experience of those in care facilities, but of older people more generally. The book includes a useful chapter on spiritual assessment, providing carers with information on how to recognise the need for care.

This book will be of interest to nurses, care workers, pastoral support professionals and anyone else working with older people.

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This comprehensive book, successfully delivers the primary aim of helping people tp develop a deeper understanding of spirituality in relation to frailty and dependency in the fourth age... It explores the spiritual dimension in late life and sensitivity presents the struggles facing older people in need of care, tackling important ethical issues such as the use of staff resources to meet relationship and intimacy needs in care homes... Therapists, particularly those who are unsure how to address this topic within their practice, or interested in developing a greater understanding in this area of gerontology will find it a thought provoking, searching, but thoroughly readable book. It is a very useful book for any reference library for occupational therapists involved with end of life care in the fourth age and for those working in care homes.

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Spirituality & Religious Experience Medicine Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Social Services & Welfare Social Welfare & Social Services Care of the Elderly Christianity Christian Life & Practice

Society & Culture Social Groups Age Groups Age Groups for Adults Age Groups for The Elderly Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health

The spiritual dimension of ageing and people in need of care	p. 11
The studies of frail older people and staff in aged care	p. 30
Assessment of spirituality and spiritual needs : a developmental approach	p. 43
Meaning in life and frailty in the later years	p. 56
Wisdom, final meaning, the spiritual journey and frail older people	p. 69
Spiritual reminiscence : provisional and final meanings in frail older people	p. 81
The spiritual journey and mental health among older adults in need of care	p. 96
Meeting the challenge : older people with memory loss and dementia	p. 109
Worship and use of ritual among older people : working in multifaith and multicultural societies	p. 129
Vulnerability and transcendence	p. 146
Living with chronic physical health problems	p. 162
Relationship and intimacy needs among nursing home residents	p. 176
Grief, death, dying and spirituality in an aged care facility	p. 194
Ethical issues in the fourth age of life	p. 213
The model of spiritual growth and care in the fourth age of life	p. 229
Assessment of the spiritual needs of older adults : level 1	p. 246
Assessment of spiritual needs of older adults : level 2	p. 248
Group topics for spiritual reminiscence	p. 253
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