[...]... care will reduce them and encourage residents to experience their opposites – in other 26 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING words to experience increasing well-being despite the diminutions of advancing years It is in this hope that MHA Care Group offers its spirituality model to the wider community to consider and develop Further information regarding the spirituality model and the training video... some separate and identifiable part of the human person? In a nutshell, and building upon the definitions of spirituality noted above, they are those needs that relate to the inner being of every person and give to that person continuing meaning and purpose in life and the strength to go on living The 18 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING intangibles in life that make living more than merely existing... in the UK and declares the following aims: 1 To explore the Christian potential and vocation in later years, and to nurture the continuing development of personal faith and growth 2 To affirm the contribution of older people to their local church and community and to encourage wider understanding across the generations 3 To improve the pastoral care of, and the opportunities for worship and fellowship... testimony to people working alongside each other and sharing their skills and experience, their competence and com- 30 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING mitment The health services of our modern western democracies, although often much maligned, are an achievement which previous generations could not have envisaged, and which still remain far removed from the reach and experience of the vast majority of the... continued artistic 16 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING and poetic creativity can be for people with dementia – and that it is wrong to suppose that such creative expression is now beyond their capability This is a message of hope indeed David Jenkins, adopting a rather different approach in the final chapter, challenges the excessively esoteric and goes so far as to suggest ‘getting help and getting by’... care in 11 12 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING the community legislation in the UK there has been an increasing diversification in those seeking MHA care Today there are over 40 residential and nursing homes in England and Wales The services offered have also been diversified over the past 25 years: into specialised dementia care, sheltered housing provision (including Scotland) and home-based support... worship and fellowship for, frail and elderly people 4 To improve pastoral support and fellowship for those who care for elderly people 5 To co-operate with other agencies concerned with ageing, including those of other faiths 6 To encourage an educated response to ageism in the churches 14 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING The intention of CCOA is to be as inclusive and ecumenical as possible In pursuance... with whom she lived – a sprightly 86 years old – could complete it quicker than that and never needed to write down the solutions in the grid 27 28 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING Mary and Margaret Robinson had deliberately chosen to come and live in one of the poorest areas of the city to support the local church and to be closer to the growing immigrant population of the city They were joined,... publications of the Halley Stewart Age Awareness Project and more recently: Spiritual Care: Guidelines for Care Plans (Hammond and Moffitt 2000); Frequently Asked Questions on Spirituality and Religion (Airey et al 2002); Religious Practice and People with Dementia (Moffitt and Allen 2002) with its interfaith perspective What is spirituality? Spirituality is of course a notoriously slippery term In... within the parish who have moved to smaller and more appropriate accommodation as they grew older, I almost always discovered that their moves had been beneficial and seldom did I come 32 AGEING, SPIRITUALITY AND WELL-BEING across people who felt that they had made the wrong choice There were opportunities for creative thinking and for starting out afresh, and I know many people who have revelled in . attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document Date: 2005.04.21 21:47:32 +08'00' Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being of related interest Spirituality and Ageing Edited by Albert. Context Edited by David Willows and John Swinton ISBN 1 85302 892 4 Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being Edited by Albert Jewell Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and New York All rights reserved local church and community and to encourage wider understanding across the generations. 3. To improve the pastoral care of, and the opportunities for worship and fellowship for, frail and elderly