{"title":"Epilogue:: Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Aging","authors":"Joseph A. Sittler","doi":"10.1300/J491V02N01_13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V02N01_13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"2 1","pages":"165-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V02N01_13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66343339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aging and the Dimensions of Spiritual Development","authors":"William M. Clements MDiv","doi":"10.1300/J491V02N01_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V02N01_10","url":null,"abstract":"The human spirit has personal and corporate dimensions and can enjoy experiential continuity, with growth and/or regression on both levels at any point in the life-cycle. memory and prolepsis contribute to spiritual development-memory by transmitting the past and bestowing identity, polepsis by incorporating a vision of the future into the presnt-thereby making creativity possible. Society's view of time can preclude a vision of the future appropriate for spiritual development in old age; however, the future can be viewed as a series of discrete moments, allowing the creativity necessary for spiritual development. The role of the church in spiritual development is vital on both the popular and the basic levels. Two concrete proposals are presented.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"2 1","pages":"127-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V02N01_10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66342608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward New Directions for Ministry in Aging","authors":"Arden K. Barden MTh","doi":"10.1300/J491V02N01_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V02N01_11","url":null,"abstract":"The church has a leadreship role in the field of aging in providing its own definitions, utilizing its own resources, and functioning with the spiritual orientation toward person-centered growth of the aging. While psycho-social theories of aging have shaped the church's role in the past, the church should avoid ageism, broadly define aging, and reinterpret its functions. The themes of religiosity, religion, theology, spirituality, and ministry are discussed. The developmental and wholistic goal of the church's involvement in aging is spiritual well-being. Solid theological basis and acerful spiritual focus lead to sound ministry. Development of the concept of spiritual aging is proposed.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"2 1","pages":"137-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V02N01_11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66342672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface:: The Church and Aging","authors":"M. Hendrickson","doi":"10.1300/J491V02N01_A","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V02N01_A","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V02N01_A","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66343469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues in Publicly Subsidized Long Term Care Systems and Implications for the Religous Sector","authors":"John N. Morris","doi":"10.1300/J491V02N01_12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V02N01_12","url":null,"abstract":"Given the increasing numbers of elderly in need of long term care services and the harsh reality of finite resources, new models are required which define those elderly persons who should remain eligible for publicly subsidized long term care. If, in fact, a method is established for serving only a limited number of older persons, i.e., the truly vulnerable elderly, by way of the public system of long term care, a large constituency of older Americans will be left to exist on the margins. The church as an informal care system may appropriately assume the role of ensuring that the available public funds are used wisely and that service gaps inevitably left bewteen the increasing number of older persons and shrinking public support are bridged. In addition, the church must assist in improving all long term services by contributing to public policy formation.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"2 1","pages":"151-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V02N01_12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66342561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exchanging Metaphors Between Science and Religion","authors":"Martin J. Heinecken","doi":"10.1300/j491v02n01_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j491v02n01_02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/j491v02n01_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66342409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Episcopal Seminaries and Aging","authors":"R. Carlson","doi":"10.1300/J491V01N04_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V01N04_01","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V01N04_01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Decision Making and Long-Term Care for the Elderly:","authors":"M. Meter, P. Johnson","doi":"10.1300/J491V01N04_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V01N04_04","url":null,"abstract":"In the first section of three articles on family decision making and long-term care arrangements, data are presented to indicate the elderly are not abandoned, rather most home health care is provided primarily by the family. Adult children meet the responsibility toward frail, dependent parents but are facing a difficult situation unique in history. Many factors are attributed to the present cohort of elderly and to the cohort of their adult children which cornplicate the traditional expectation of caregiving to one's elderly parents. The older person's family needs education and support in making decisions regarding long-term care. Religious organizations have an important role to play. A review of selected literature, as Part II of the trilogy investigating family decision making and long-term care, describes some views of the process and discussion of adult children's sense of filial obligation. Both the stress of caregiving and guilt of institutionalization felt by the family argue for full family in...","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"1 1","pages":"59-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V01N04_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66342051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Almshouses in Sixteenth-Century England:","authors":"A. Tobriner","doi":"10.1300/J491V01N04_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V01N04_02","url":null,"abstract":"The English \"almshouse\" has a significantly different origin and history from that of the American institution of the same name. This paper reports on the almshouse as a distinctly positive means of housing for the poor elderly, with special reference to the reign of Elizabeth I of England. The numbers of almshouses, their architectural designs (as compared with the homes of the poor), and their administration-including a description of ordinary life as an almsman-are considered. Some observations concerning motives of foundation and subsequent attitudes are presented in conclusion.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"1 1","pages":"13-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V01N04_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66341926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the Meaning of Life in Older Age","authors":"L. Missinne, Judy Willeke-Kay","doi":"10.1300/J491V01N04_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V01N04_03","url":null,"abstract":"Viktor Frankl's theory concerning meaning of life is applied to specific problems and needs of the elderly. Four aspects of his theory are emphasized: (a) the creation of meaning of life through choices made by the individual, (b) the importance of values as a basis for meaning, (c) the responsibility each person has for right action and conduct, and (d) the concepts of both ultimate and provisional meaning. Interviews with older people are used as the foundation for further reflections on Frankl's theory and application of the four specific aspects. They indicate also that Frankl's theory is particularly relevant to the crises common to older people and their need for spiritual values.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"1 1","pages":"43-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V01N04_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66342379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}