About Us
Our Vision
To mobilise faith communities to understand, celebrate, promote and support the importance of the diversity and social and spiritual needs of older members in their congregations and local communities.
FiOP will work in partnership with a range of organisations to forward its aims.
Our Aims
To enhance the quality of life and well- being of older people by providing practical, pastoral or spiritual care.
Faith in Older People’s work enables people
to become more attuned to the spiritual values of
compassion, wisdom, truth, beauty, kindness and courage
For Spirituality click here
For Standards click here
For Our Background click here
www.faithinolderpeople.org.uk
LATEST NEWS
The Second Scottish Caring and Dementia Congress. FiOP will be presenting a paper on Delivering Spiritual Care on 18th March and previewing the DVD developed in collaboration with Alzheimer Scotland and Artlink on 17th March in Edinburgh. See www.careinfo.org
Mental Health
First Aid
The course is the first Mental Health First Aid course to be delivered by older people for older people and will be delivered over four sessions at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. The course is free and lunch is provided. For more information and to book this course, click here to download the flyer.
Scottish International Symposium for Storytelling as a Healing Art June 13th to 19th 2010.
This is a week long residential course to share ideas and practice on Storytelling as a Healing Art. Click here to download the registration form or click here for the full programme.
100 not out
A study by the University of Surrey to investigate some of the 'lifestyle secrets' to living a long and healthy life. Click here to download more information.
NEWSLETTER
Download our
latest newletter.
In this issue:
Working in new areas
Cosmic Spiral
Spiritual Reflections
The need for the outdoor room
A new lecture by Malcolm Goldsmith is available.
Click here to download.
The Annual Report for 2008/09 can now be downloaded.
Click on the image above.
