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.
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