{"title":"Parish Ministry and the Elderly","authors":"Ellen C. McKay Msw","doi":"10.1300/J491v03n03_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491v03n03_11","url":null,"abstract":"Oppurtunities for parishes and congregations to develop worthwhile programs with and for senior parishioners are abundant. The challenge lies in adding a spiritual dimension so the programs are not simply duplications of public programs. In this article results of a questionnaire survey, and interviews with ten Catholic parish pastors and 72 senior parishioners are reported. The interview questions worked well, and are included. Eight themes emerged from the interviews; and they imply direction for program development.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"127-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491v03n03_11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66345813","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":"Remarriage and the Elderly","authors":"Bert Katschke-Jennings DMin, D. Healy","doi":"10.1300/J491V03N03_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V03N03_01","url":null,"abstract":"Remarriage among the elderly, an increasingly prevalent phenomenon, has received scant attention from the helping professions. The elderly have distinctive needs and circumstances which make the prospect of remarriage different for them than it is for young or middle-aged persons. Because most elderly people in our soclety have some kind of church affiliation, the church is in a key position to nurture and counsel them. Clergy, in particular, need to be well informed about the elderly's special needs in order to provide effective counsel concerning divorce, widowhood, and remarriage.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V03N03_01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66345000","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":"Memory, Hold the Door","authors":"Rsw David G. Hawkins DRel","doi":"10.1300/J491V03N03_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V03N03_02","url":null,"abstract":"The author, parish pastor, hospital chaplain and social worker considers reminiscence to be positively correlated with successful adaptation to and survival in old age. It serves both intrapersonal and interpersonal functions. Reminiscence maintains self-esteem, re-affirms identity and integrity, works through losses, celebrates gains and allays anxieties about aging. It further negotiates age and status differences and creates a congenial atmosphere for interchange. The author discusses pastoral care implications. A case note and bibliography are included.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"19 1","pages":"13-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V03N03_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66345017","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 Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Program","authors":"D. Haber","doi":"10.1300/J491v03n03_13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491v03n03_13","url":null,"abstract":"The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging co-sponsored the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Program. The basic objective of the program was to fund religious coalitions willing to develop innovative programs to serve the frail, isolated elderly in the community. One of the 25 grantees around the country was the Washrngton, DC program. This program consisted of two parts: (1) congregation-based caregiving training programs and mutual help groups, and (2) a matching program that paired volunteers with rsolated elders.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"151-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491v03n03_13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66345569","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 Religious Commitment in a Midwestern Jewish Community","authors":"C. Kart, Nail M. Palmer, A. Flaschner","doi":"10.1300/J491V03N03_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V03N03_05","url":null,"abstract":"This research describes the relationship between age and religiosity among American Jews living in a metropolitan area in the midwestern United States. lnterviews were completed with the head of household or hislher spouse in 286 \"affiliated\" Jewish households. Religiosity was measured in diverse ways under two broad categories: organizational religious commitment and nonorganizational, or individual, religious commitment. Scales were identified, in the unidimensional Guttman sense, among the indicators of religious commitment. The effects of age and education on each of the identified scales were observed. Separate analyses were conducted for thosc indicators of religious commitment not included in any of the scales. For malcs, only the number of Jewish organizaiional memberships showed age related differences. Females showed statistically significant age differences on organizational and individual measures of religiosity, including the organizational-symbolic scale (made up of \"synagogue attendance\" an...","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"49-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V03N03_05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66345333","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":"Spinning off:: A Case study of the Secularization of Church-Related Social Services for the Elderly","authors":"F. E. Netting","doi":"10.1300/J491V03N03_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V03N03_10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"115-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V03N03_10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66345147","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":"On developing a geriatric ethic: personhood in the thought of Stanley Hauerwas.","authors":"B J Spielman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Those who provide health care for the elderly are being confronted by a variety of ethical problems, including paternalism, withdrawal of life-support systems, and allocation of scarce resources. Discussion surrounding these issues lacks persuasive power because it lacks an appropriate theoretical grounding. This paper grounds geriatric ethics in the theory of the person described by Stanley Hauerwas. It shows that Hauerwas' emphasis on the attributes of temporality, sociality, and limitation is both consistent with the conclusions of gerontologists, and fruitful for developing specific ethical guidelines. Three ethical principles--continuity, interdependence, and normality--provide a framework from which to begin to resolve ethical problems in geriatrics.</p>","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":" ","pages":"23-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24957566","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":"Death as a Factor in Understanding Modern Attitudes Toward the Aging","authors":"W. Jones","doi":"10.1300/J491V03N01_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V03N01_07","url":null,"abstract":"This article challenges the adequacy of the eight primary theories that are used to analyze and account for what happens to persons in contemporary U.S. culture during the aging process. The theory presented in this article, Symbolization-Avoidance Theory, draws its clue from contrasting attitudes toward death during several periods in this country's history. The author suggests that there is a direct correlation between the modern avoidanceldenial of death through \"removal,\" and the image of elders as symbolic reminders of death, resulting in their rejection/departmentalization through \"invisibility.\" This phenomenon, destined to become a growlng dynamic in the future, is the dynamic known as \"ageism.\"","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"75-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V03N01_07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66344216","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":"Prognosis for the Future:: Looking at the Past","authors":"J. Lindquist","doi":"10.1300/J491v03n01_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491v03n01_10","url":null,"abstract":"The \"Boomer\" generation will begin to turn age 65 in 2011. This huge cohort represents both strength and a challenge to secular and religious institutions alike. A tip of the \"Boomer\" iceberg will be affluent. Many will be self-supporting. But a large number will be in need. A majority of the boomers are entering their prime earning years on a schedule that is actually behind that of their parents. Churches and denominations have 30 years to prepare to meet the needs of the Boomers as they enter old age.","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"107-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491v03n01_10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66344522","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":"Communities Within Communities","authors":"O. Z. White","doi":"10.1300/J491V03N01_16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J491V03N01_16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religion & aging","volume":"3 1","pages":"193-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J491V03N01_16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66344821","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}