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Developing a Relational Model of Care for Older People
Creating Environments for Shared Living
Care of older people is a major issue in the UK, crossing the boundaries between emotion, practical issues and economics. Yet many current concerns, and much conventional planning, are based on outdated assumptions or misunderstandings about the nature of ageing. Woodward and Kartupelis work to shatter these myths to create new and more useful models for our society.
Drawing on recent research, the book zeroes in on the nature of interpersonal relationships, their critical effect and the factors which affect their formation. The book has been inspired by the extensive work undertaken by both authors in the field of promoting the spiritual wellbeing of older people in in the UK, and brings together a diversity of expertise to propose a revolutionary new approach based on nurturing particular types of relationship.
Stimulating and eminently readable, this key text will play a vital role in reimagining care for the elderly and recognising the full potential of our older population.
An outstanding book of humane and imaginative analysis of how to meet the needs of older people, rooted in research and policy expertise. James Woodward and Jenny Kartupelis take the reader well beyond traditional models of care into a world of whole-person nurture, with spirituality at its centre.
Professor Malcolm Johnson FAcSS, Professor of Gerontology and End of Life Care, University of Bath
Between Remembering and Forgetting
A much-needed resource for reflection on the spiritual dimension of dementia, Between Remembering and Forgetting brings together contributions from distinguished and experienced practitioners in the front line of dementia research and care to explore the practical implications for Churches and other faith groups, as well as for individual carers.
Between Remembering and Forgetting almost made me weep. It is a clarion call to everyone concerned to recognise that people with dementia, from its mildest to its most severe forms, can still communicate, still have spiritual longings, and that we can reach them, with our imagination and their help. Everyone who looks after, or is concerned with policy around the care for, people with dementia needs to read these glorious and humbling essays and learn from them.
Rabbi the Rt Hon the Baroness Neuberger
This book is available to borrow from the Sarum College Library
Valuing Age
Pastoral Ministry with Older People
As someone with regular contact with those in pastoral ministry I am conscious how little time they have for reading and how small their book budgets often are. This book can be warmly recommended to pastoral carers as a sound investment that will be used repeatedly. It is clearly written and free from jargon. Each chapter has a clear focus and can be comfortably read in half an hour. Chapters start with vignettes of experience which serve to draw the reader in and emphasize the diversity of experience amongst older people. They end with exercises that stimulate reflection and questions that provoke discussion. This structure means that the book lends itself to small-group sessions.
The author emerges from the text, not only as a skilful practitioner but as someone who has thought through the personal implications of ageing and so presents it as “something for us all” rather than “something that is happening to other people.
This is an excerpt of a review by Helen Cameron
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