The Episcopal Seminaries and Aging

Abstract

The article summarizes the findings of a study of the Episcopal Church's seminaries and aging conducted by the author. The overall feeling of students and faculty that "not much" was happening was not entirely accurate. Five of the thirteen schools surveyed offered a course in aging and all of the schools included some aging issues in one or more pastoral care courses. Most of the schools provided some field experience in aging within their field education options. An encouraging finding is that all of the schools sending a faculty member to a national consultation on aging subsequently upgraded their work in the field.