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Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being of relatedinterest Spirituality and Ageing EditedbyAlbertJewell ISBN185302631X The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing ElizabethMacKinlay ISBN1843100088 Hearing the Voice of People with Dementia OpportunitiesandObstacles MalcolmGoldsmith ISBN1853024066 Spiritual Caregiving as Secular Sacrament APracticalTheologyforProfessionalCaregivers RayS.Anderson ISBN1843107465 In Living Color AnInterculturalApproachtoPastoralCareandCounseling SecondEdition EmmanuelY.Lartey ISBN1843107503 A Guide to the Spiritual Dimension of Care for People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia MorethanBody,BrainandBreath EileenShamy ISBN1843101297 Spirituality in Health Care Contexts EditedbyHelenOrchard ISBN1853029696 Spirituality, Healing and Medicine ReturntotheSilence DavidAldridge ISBN1853025542 Spiritual Dimensions of Pastoral Care PracticalTheologyinaMultidisciplinaryContext EditedbyDavidWillowsandJohnSwinton ISBN1853028924 Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being Edited by Albert Jewell Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and New York Allrightsreserved.Nopartof thispublicationmaybereproducedinany materialform(includingphotocopyingorstoringitinanymediumby electronicmeansandwhetherornottransientlyorincidentallytosomeother useof thispublication)withoutthewrittenpermissionof thecopyrightowner exceptinaccordancewiththeprovisionsof theCopyright,Designsand PatentsAct1988orunderthetermsof alicenceissuedbytheCopyright LicensingAgencyLtd,90TottenhamCourtRoad,London,EnglandW1P 9HE.Applicationsforthecopyrightowner’swrittenpermissiontoreproduce anypartof thispublicationshouldbeaddressedtothepublisher. Warning:Thedoingof anunauthorisedactinrelationtoacopyrightwork mayresultinbothacivilclaimfordamagesandcriminalprosecution. Therightof thecontributorstobeidentifiedasauthorsof thisworkhasbeen assertedbytheminaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct 1988. FirstpublishedintheUnitedKingdomin2004 byJessicaKingsleyPublishersLtd 116PentonvilleRoad LondonN19JB,England and 29West35thStreet,10thfl. NewYork,NY10001-2299,USA www.jkp.com Copyright©JessicaKingsleyPublishers2004 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryof Congress British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN184310167X PrintedandBoundinGreatBritainby AthenaeumPress,Gateshead,TyneandWear Contents PREFACE Albert Jewell, former Pastoral Director, MHA Care Group, Derby 7 1. Nourishing the Inner Being: A Spirituality Model 11 Albert Jewell 2. The Stars Only Shine in the Night: The Challenge of Creative Ageing 27 Malcolm Goldsmith, former Research Fellow, University of Stirling 3. Successful Ageing and the Spiritual Journey 42 Harriet Mowat, Aberdeen University 4. The Caged Bird: Thoughts on the Challenge 58 of Living with Stroke Penelope Wilcock, Methodist Minister 5. The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing 72 Elizabeth MacKinlay, University of Canberra 6. Ageing and the Trinity: Holey, Wholly, Holy? 86 Rosalie Hudson, University of Melbourne 7. Older People and Institutionalised Religion: 101 Spiritual Questioning in Later Life Peter G. Coleman, University of Southampton 8. The Search for Meaning of Life in Older Age 113 Leo Missinne, University of Nebraska 9. The Dance of Life: Spirituality, Ageing 124 and Human Flourishing Ursula King, Professor Emerita, University of Bristol 10. Magic Mirrors: What People with Dementia 143 Show Us about Ourselves John Killick, University of Stirling 11. Hearing the Story: Spiritual Challenges 153 for the Ageing in an Acute Mental Health Unit Deborah Dunn, Chaplain, Western Australia 12. Eastern Perspectives and Implications for the West 161 Krishna Mohan, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 13. Ageist Theology: Some Pickwickian Prolegomena 180 Kevin Barnard, Vicar of Bolsterstone, Diocese of Sheffield 14. Geriatric Burden or Elderly Blessing? 197 David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham REFERENCES 203 THECONTRIBUTORS 217 SUBJECTINDEX 219 AUTHORINDEX 223 Preface Albert Jewell HavingeditedSpiritualityandAgeing(1999),Icountitaprivilegetoactin the same capacity for this publication. The provenance however is different. The first book arose out of the Sir Halley Stewart project of which I was the administrator. The purpose of that project was to raise awarenessofthespiritualneedsofolderpeopleandencourageinterestin the spirituality of ageing in the church and the wider community in the UK.Somefouryearslateragreatdealhasbeenachievedtowardsthatend. Further publications have burgeoned. Ageing is seen as a very important social issue and spirituality is on the agenda of many more people than those who attend church, synagogue, mosque or temple. ThepresentbookaroseoutoftheSecondInternationalConferenceon Ageing, Spirituality and Well-being held at Durham University in July 2002.ThefirstsuchconferencewasheldinCanberrain2000andtheUK delegates representing the Christian Council on Ageing (CCOA) were asked to make arrangements for the 2002 conference. MHA Care Group (formerlyknownasMethodistHomesfortheAged),whichIservedfirstas PastoralDirectorandthenasSeniorChaplain,wereinvitedtoco-sponsor the event along with CCOA and provide the necessary administrative back-up.Thistheydidlargelythankstothededicatedworkof MrsLynn Fox,whoactedasmyPAuntilmyretirementin2001andwhonowserves inthesamecapacityformysuccessor,RevDrKeithAlbans,whohimself worked tirelessly behind the scenes at Durham. Some200peopleattendedtheconferenceandweretreatedtokeynote addresses,papersandworkshopsofaveryhighquality.Thisbookbrings togetheralloftheplenaryaddresses,rewrittenforpublication,plusaselec- 7 8 AGEING,SPIRITUALITYANDWELL-BEING tion of the other papers, though sadly the workshops do not lend themselves easily to such reproduction. InChapter5ElizabethMacKinlayhascompressedthematerialwhich canbereadinfullinherbookTheSpiritualDimensionofAgeing(2001a)and has updated it. EarlierversionsofChapter8byLeoMissinnepreviouslyappearedin Quarterly Papers on Religion, vol. 1, no. 5, published by St Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, and in Spiritual Well-being of the Elderly (edsJ.A.ThorsonandT.C.Cook)(1980),publishedbyC.C.Thomasof Springfield,Illinois.Wearegratefultothecollegeandtothepublishersfor permission to reproduce here. DrKrishnaMohanwishestoplaceonrecordhissincerethankstoDr DaphneWallace,chairoftheCCOADementiaGroup,forherhelpinpre- paring his chapter for publication. In some ways the book that has now been produced provides even richer fare than the original event. Two main speakers were hospitalised andhadtodropoutoftheconferencelateintheday.RevMalcolmGold- smith,whohadsoexcitedtheCanberraconference,haskindlywrittenup whathewouldhavesaidinhisaddressundertheevocativetitle‘TheStars OnlyShineintheNight’.ProfessorJohnHullofBirminghamUniversity wouldhavespokenabouthisexperienceofblindness.Inplaceofthis,and because the physical aspects of ageing ought not to be ignored, I asked Penelope Wilcock, a contributor to Spirituality and Ageing, if she would writeChapter4aboutthechallengeof stroke.Thisshehasdonetogreat effect. I have also written an introductory chapter that provides fuller infor- mation about MHA Care Group and CCOA, looks at some of the definitionsofspiritualityofferedbytheotherwritersandsuggestsapossi- ble model. WeinvitedtheRtRevdDrDavidJenkins,formerProfessorofTheol- ogyintheUniversityof LeedsandBishopof Durhamfrom1984–1994, tokeepawatchingbriefattheconferenceandinthefinalkeynoteaddress tosharewithushisreflections.Hehasnowrewrittentheseas‘reflections onreflections’,inamoststimulatingandprovocative‘endpiece’(Chapter 14). Readers of the earlier chapters will have to decide how fair he has been in his critique, but he certainly makes a trenchant case. PREFACE 9 What no book can do, of course, is to replicate the debates that the addressesandpapersgenerateataconferenceandthegeneral‘buzz’ofso many people from many different disciplines and the churches getting together. I trust nonetheless that what is written will be seen as a worthy contributiontotheongoingdiscussionaboutthepartplayedbyspiritual- ity in the well-being of older people.
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