Spirituality and Ageing

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Spirituality and Ageing
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• Are older people different?

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Older people
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losses

• isolation

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• We experience the world through our senses

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Sometimes we have problems!
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• confusion

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What do you know about dementia?
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Beatitudes of friends of the old

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• They took away what should have been my eyes,
• (But I remembered Miltons Paradise)
• They took away what should have been my ears,
• (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears)
• They took away what should have been my tongue,
• (But I had talked to God when I was young)
• He would not let them take away my soul
• Possessing that I still possess the whole
• Helen Keller

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Humans are meaning makers

• A giving to the world
• A taking from the world
• A making sense of the world
• Victor Frankl

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People need to feel

• Safe
• Respected
• Wanted
• Successful

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Spiritual well-being ill-being

• Love Hate
• Joy Depression
• Peace Guilt/Anxiety
• Patience Impatience
• Kindness Discourtesy
• Goodness Wickedness
• Faithfulness Disloyalty
• Gentleness Harshness
• Self control Bad temper

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. and more

• Truth Falsehood
• Forgiveness Suspicion
• Belonging Loneliness
• Contentment Dissatisfaction
• Fulfillment Disappointment
• Gratitude Taking for granted
• Friendship Rejection
• Hope Despair

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The worshipping community

• What makes for good worship?
• Is it different for older people?

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The setting

• A focus for worship
• Using the senses

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A sense of otherness
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Community
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Familiar songs
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Prayers
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Communion

• Use of symbols

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Hospitality
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