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My three-point turn toward personalizing good death in old age
Rikkert's personal experiences with death in old age led him to reflect on the importance of personalized end-of-life care. As a geriatrician, he always focused on improving functional performance and autonomy for older individuals. However, he now realize that facilitating a good death is equally important. In his encounters with his father, father-in-law, and beloved dog, he witnessed the need for compassionate and professional assistance in ensuring a peaceful death. These experiences have made him realize the shortcomings in his training as a geriatrician, as death and dying were not adequately addressed. Moving forward, he believes it is crucial for physicians to include death in conversations and care plans, and to receive proper training in end-of-life care.
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Spirituality of Later Life: On Humor and Despair
Humor expresses a certain heroic defiance in the face of life's most challenging experience and provides a valuable resource for the celebration of life and the divine comedy of faith, hope, and love.-From the book chapter by Melvin A. Kimble, PhD
Studies have shown that as many people age, their spirituality deepens. Spirituality of Later Life: On Humor and Despair explores the challenges faced by those in later life and the use of humor for self-transcendence to achieve greater strength and deeper spirituality. Respected authorities share their insights on humor and despair in the process of spiritual development in later life, with discussions on how to provide effective pastoral practice in aged care.
Spirituality of Later Life: On Humor and Despair presents the major issues that challenge people in later life that could lead them to either spiritual integrity or despair. Beyond the physical and psychosocial, this book shows how the journey into aging can-through humor-become self-transcendent and deeply spiritual in the face of physical decline. This theological perspective illustrates the full breadth of issues facing those in later life. It presents effective pastoral frameworks of care for those who struggle with the depression, dementia, disabilities, losses, and terminal illness that may accompany aging.
Spirituality of Later Life: On Humor and Despair explores:
humor as a path to self-transcendence in later life
later life's 'paradox of well-being' and 'defiant power of the human spirit'
dementia and its effect on spirituality
spiritual and pastoral care approaches for those with depression
religiousness in older people with dementia
the spiritual journey of hospice patients
non-speech based pastoral care
Spirituality of Later Life: On Humor and Despair provides valuable i
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The Anglo-Latin elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar
A poem by a French monk named Herbert petitions Wulfgar Abbot of Abingdon for a gift of warm clothing. The poem, a mock epic employing alliteration and hermeneutic vocabulary, presents the seasons as warring deities. Using similar technique in the final eight lines of the poem, Wulfgar denies Herbert with a humourous response. This article contains an edition, translation, and analysis of the poem, along with brief biographies of the two authors. Another work by Herbert, a prosimetric letter requesting an allowance of fish, is edited and translated in an appendix.
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