Aging, Spirituality and Palliative Care

Rev Elizabeth Mackinley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-3341-3 (ISBN)

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Gain greater depth of understanding of end-of-life spiritual issues for older adults

The period of time when a person approaches death is always difficult both for the patient and the caregiver. Aging, Spirituality, and Palliative Care discusses best practices in aged and palliative care while addressing patients’ diverse spiritual needs. Leading authorities’ presentations from the Third International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality in Adelaide, Australia, in 2004 explore practical, sensitive spiritual approaches to help older patients deal with aging, illness, and approaching death.

Aging, Spirituality, and Palliative Care carefully examines what can be the most spiritually meaningful time in the life of an aging personconfronting illness and death. Though they may be unafraid of dying, older people many times fear the pain and suffering that may accompany it. The process of dying is presented with care and reverence, while providing effective approaches to increase comfort, spirituality, and quality of life. Each chapter is extensively referenced, and many include tables and figures that enhance understanding of research data.

Topics in Aging, Spirituality, and Palliative Care include:

helping older people to ’sustain the self’ to allow them freedom to do personal spiritual work

helping patients cope with changing circumstances

providing a sense of direction

the opposition of spiritual values by contemporary social policy

caring for each person as an ’ensouled body’ and ’embodied soul’

assessing spiritual needs

a positive approach to dementia

spiritual reminiscence as exploration of life meanings

study comparison of traditional religiousness versus de-institutionalized spiritual seeking

the pain associated with dyingand spirituality’s place in it

addressing the multiple aspects of suffering

clowning as care of the spirit

Buddhist and Christian approaches to understanding aging, death, and spirituality

caregivers adapting to the world of the patient

the spiritual aspect of palliative care in residential aged care

personal competence and operational competence in student learning

intimate, professional, and communal fidelity

Aging, Spirituality, and Palliative Care is meaningful, valuable reading for chaplains, pastoral workers, palliative care providers, social care providers, nurses, diversional therapists, and other workers who care for the aged.

Rev Elizabeth Mackinley

Foreword

Preface

PART I

Ageing Health Care and the Spiritual Imperative: A View from Scotland (Harriet Mowat)

Continuity, Spiritual Growth, and Coping in Later Adulthood (Robert C. Atchley)

The Spirituality of Compassion: A Public Health Response to Ageing and End-of-Life Care (Bruce Rumbold)

Disembodied Souls or Soul-Less Bodies: Spirituality as Fragmentation (Rosalie Hudson)

Spiritual Care: Recognizing Spiritual Needs of Older Adults (Elizabeth MacKinlay)

Helping the Flame to Stay Bright: Celebrating the Spiritual in Dementia (John Killick)

I Am Just an Ordinary Person: Spiritual Reminiscence in Older People with Memory Loss (Corinne Trevitt and Elizabeth MacKinlay)

Who Is Afraid of Death? Religiousness, Spirituality, and Death Anxiety in Late Adulthood (Paul Wink)

The Pain of Dying (Michael Barbato)

SufferingAt the Bedside of the Dying (David Currow and Meg Hegarty)

Joy in the Midst of Suffering: Clowning as Care of the Spirit in Palliative Care (Jenny Thompson-Richards)

Ageing and Death: A Buddhist-Christian Conceptual Framework for Spirituality in Later Life (Ruwan Palapathwala)

The ’Connection’ Health Care Providers Make with Dying Patients (Ann Harrington)

PART II

A Palliative Approach to Spirituality in Residential Aged Care (Linda Kristjanson)

Learning to Be a Professional: Two Models of Competence and Related Learning Strategies (Laurie Grealish)

Till Death Us Do Part: Issues of Fidelity in End of Life Care (Margaret O’Connor and Susan Lee)

Index

Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.10.2006
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-3341-0 / 0789033410
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-3341-3 / 9780789033413
Zustand	Neuware