by MacKinlay, Elizabeth, 1940-; Ellor, James W; Pickard, Stephen K
Publication date 2001
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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
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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
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Section 1. Ethical, Theological and Biblical Dimensions
Ethics and Ageing in the 21st Century
Beyond the Biomedical Paradigm: Generating a Spiritual Vision of Ageing
Outward Decay and Inward Renewal: A Biblical Perspective on Ageing and the Image of God
‘Wholeness, Dignity and the Ageing Self’: A Conversation Between Philosophy and Theology
The Getting and Losing Wisdom
Section 2. Issues of Ageing and Pastoral Care
Ageing and Isolation: Is the Issue Social Isolation or Is It Lack of Meaning of Life?
Pastoral Support for Late-Life Sexuality
Understanding the Ageing Process: A Developmental Perspective of the Psychosocial and Spiritual Dimensions
Through a Glass Darkly: A Dialogue Between Dementia and Faith
When Words Are No Longer Necessary: The Gift of Ritual
The Spiritual Dimension of Caring: Applying a Model for Spiritual Tasks of Ageing
The Challenges and Opportunities of Faith Community (Parish) Nursing in an Ageing Society
Epilogue
Radical Discipleship for an Ageing Society
Index
Reference Notes Included
Book Review — Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care: A Multi-National Perspective
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2004
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REVIEWED BY FR. JAMES BRESNAHAN, SJ, JD, PhD
Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care: A Multi-National Perspective
Elizabeth MacKinlay, James W. Ellor, and Stephen Pickard, eds.
Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY, 2001, 190 pp., $39.95, $24.95 (paperback)
This book, which also appeared in 2001 as two consecutive issues of the Journal of Religious Gerontology, is a collection of 12 essays followed by a brief afterword. Of the dozen authors, one is from Scotland, two are from the United States, and the others, including the three editors, are all from Australia. Some are Protestants, others Catholic. The perspectives from which they examine the challenges of aging and of caring for the aging range from the explicitly theological to the (primarily) psychological to the practical (studies of nursing care). The essays' style and content also vary, ranging from the academic marshaling of opinions to interpretative narratives to poetic musings on the experience of aging.
The essays are divided into two sections. The first includes essays on the "ethical, theological and biblical dimensions" of the aging process itself as we have come to know it in our own era, when an increasing number of people survive into old age and deal with various kinds of chronic illness. The essays of the second section attend to the pastoral challenges involved in dealing with the aging.
Three essays were of particular interest to this reviewer. The first, by Melvin Kimble, PhD, is called "Beyond the Biomedical Paradigm: Generating a Spiritual Vision of Ageing." The other two, both by Elizabeth MacKinlay, one of the book's editors, are "Understanding the Ageing Process: A Developmental Perspective of the Psychosocial and Spiritual Dimensions" and "The Spiritual Dimension of Caring: Applying a Model for Spiritual Tasks of Ageing."
In all three essays, caregivers are urged to recognize and respond to spiritual developments characteristic of many aging persons, to their spiritual accomplishments as well as their spiritual needs and longings. In the first of her two pieces, MacKinlay describes a study of nurses who, in the course of their work, came to acknowledge and deal with the spiritual — as distinct from the psychosocial — in their patients. Doing so involves a wider than usual understanding of "spirituality" in today's Western cultures, in which spirituality is by no means found only in those aging persons who belong to churches, synagogues, or temples. In her second essay, MacKinlay enumerates six spiritual themes identified in a study of independent living older adults. These themes express various aspects of the search, which many aging people conduct as death approaches, for meaning in life and in relationships.
Other essays, especially "Through a Glass Darkly: A Dialogue between Dementia and Faith" by Malcolm Goldsmith, provide valuable insights into ways to interpret and respond to the deeply troubling aspects of dementia in the aging.
This is a collection well worth exploring, although the variety in the approaches in these essays will not please everyone.
Fr. James Bresnahan, SJ, JD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Medical Ethics and Humanities and Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago
Copyright © 2004 by the Catholic Health Association of the United States
For reprint permission, contact Betty Crosby or call (314) 253-3477.
Book Review - Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care - A Multi-National Perspective
Copyright © 2004 by the Catholic Health Association of the United States
For reprint permission, contact Betty Crosby or call (314) 253-3490.
