Table of Contents

• Foreword Preface PART I Ageing Health Care and the Spiritual Imperative: A View from Scotland (Harriet Mowat) Continuity, Spiritual Growth, and Coping in Later Adulthood (Robert C. Atchley) The Spirituality of Compassion: A Public Health Response to Ageing and End-of-Life Care (Bruce Rumbold) Disembodied Souls or Soul-Less Bodies: Spirituality as Fragmentation (Rosalie Hudson) Spiritual Care: Recognizing Spiritual Needs of Older Adults (Elizabeth MacKinlay) Helping the Flame to Stay Bright: Celebrating the Spiritual in Dementia (John Killick) I Am Just an Ordinary Person: Spiritual Reminiscence in Older People with Memory Loss (Corinne Trevitt and Elizabeth MacKinlay) Who Is Afraid of Death? Religiousness, Spirituality, and Death Anxiety in Late Adulthood (Paul Wink) The Pain of Dying (Michael Barbato) SufferingAt the Bedside of the Dying (David Currow and Meg Hegarty) Joy in the Midst of Suffering: Clowning as Care of the Spirit in Palliative Care (Jenny Thompson-Richards) Ageing and Death: A Buddhist-Christian Conceptual Framework for Spirituality in Later Life (Ruwan Palapathwala) The ’Connection’ Health Care Providers Make with Dying Patients (Ann Harrington) PART II A Palliative Approach to Spirituality in Residential Aged Care (Linda Kristjanson) Learning to Be a Professional: Two Models of Competence and Related Learning Strategies (Laurie Grealish) Till Death Us Do Part: Issues of Fidelity in End of Life Care (Margaret O’Connor and Susan Lee) Index Reference Notes Included

About the Author

Rev Elizabeth Mackinley