New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging

New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging
Title New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging PDF eBook
Author Vern Bengtson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 337
Release 2018-09-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0429873999

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New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging expands the traditional focus of religiosity to include and evaluate recent research and discoveries on the role of secular spirituality in the aging process. Contributors examine the ways conventional religion and other forms of spirituality affect human development, health and longevity, and they demonstrate how myth-creation enables humans to make meaning in their lives. Taken together, the book points to further research to enhance current knowledge, approaches to care, and social policies.

Spirituality, Religion, and Aging

Spirituality, Religion, and Aging
Title Spirituality, Religion, and Aging PDF eBook
Author Holly Nelson-Becker
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 651
Release 2017-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 148331524X

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Spirituality, Religion, and Aging: Illuminations for Therapeutic Practice by Holly Nelson-Becker is a highly integrative book written for students, professionals in aging, ministers, and older adults themselves. Readers will gain the knowledge and skills they need to assess, engage, and address the spiritual and religious needs of older persons. Taking a fresh approach that breaks new ground in the field, the author discusses eight major world religions and covers values and ethics, theories, interventions, health and caregiving, depression and anxiety, dementia, and the end of life. Meditations and exercises throughout the book allow readers to expand and explore their personal understanding of spirituality. Referencing the latest research, the book includes assessments and skill-based tools designed to help practitioners enhance the mental health of older people.

The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing

The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing
Title The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth MacKinlay
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages 274
Release 2001
Genre Religion
ISBN 1843100088

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"Drawing on in-depth interviews with older people, Elizabeth MacKinlay, develops an understanding of spirituality that enables the reader to explore the spiritual dimension of ageing and to learn how it contributes to well being and health in later life. This book will be a useful text for students, trainers and academics, policy makers and practitioners in health and social care, as well as religious professionals, in hospital, residential and other caring settings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Aging as a Spiritual Practice

Aging as a Spiritual Practice
Title Aging as a Spiritual Practice PDF eBook
Author Lewis Richmond
Publisher Avery
Pages 255
Release 2012-12-31
Genre Religion
ISBN 1592407471

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Offers a Buddhist perspective on aging well, with anecdotes of the author's experiences with illness, aging, and transformation, and guided meditations.

Social Forces and Aging

Social Forces and Aging
Title Social Forces and Aging PDF eBook
Author Robert C. Atchley
Publisher Wadsworth Publishing Company
Pages 552
Release 1988
Genre Medical
ISBN

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Aging as a Spiritual Journey

Aging as a Spiritual Journey
Title Aging as a Spiritual Journey PDF eBook
Author Eugene C. Bianchi
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 296
Release 2011-07-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1725230062

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Bianchi's wide-ranging book draws together insights from the social sciences, the humanities, and religion to establish a holistic framework for a spirituality of aging. He argues that middle life and late adulthood present opportunities for turning inward for a deeper contemplative life within the context of active, worldly endeavors. This can also augur a reform of social relationships--beyond individual development alone--toward the creation of a more cooperative, just society. In this way, physical decline is countered by a spiritual ascent. He summons aging persons, fortified with universal values and concerns gained from age and experience, to return to the centers of decision making. Throughout, the author ponders such questions as personal power, identity, fear, freedom, contemplation, sexuality, the church, faith, suffering, and hope. In candid interviews, older religious leaders reflect on their early value formation, personal traumas, choice of careers, midlife transitions, experiences of old age, and the prospect of death. In dwelling mainly on human spiritual dilemmas of the aging cycle, Bianchi offers a strong, clear message of hope--one that stands against the tide of our culture which tends to shunt older people to the outer eddies of life's stream. Aging as a Spiritual Journey is immensely valuable to all laypersons and those in the helping professions who are concerned about the quality of the aging process.

Spirituality and Aging

Spirituality and Aging
Title Spirituality and Aging PDF eBook
Author Robert C. Atchley
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 220
Release 2009-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0801891191

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Separating spirituality from religion--something few books on this topic do--Spirituality and Aging offers a plan for incorporating spirituality into gerontological scholarship, research, education, and practice.