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Death and dying – how much information can people stand?
At work, I think about death and dying a lot. I’m not a clinician or a carer – I don’t work with people who are ill or frail – I …
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In times like these it is easy to feel low or overwhelmed, and to forget that we have basic needs. It’s also easy to feel that looking after ourselves would …
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Christians on Ageing – originally Christian Council on Ageing – was launched with a meeting at Westminster Cathedral Conference Centre May 1982 and became a Registered Charity 1984. Early meetings …
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The mental wellbeing of our society is critically important if we are to weather the storm created by the pandemic. However, we must also consider that there are many older …
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Last year, when we thought we had seen the peak of the pandemic, I chose to leave my job in teaching and start a new vocation as a full-time priest. …
Read full article on Learning more deeply to recognise and serve the community, Part 1‘I’m not ageist! I love the old dears…’
The events of 2020 were “unprecedented”, extraordinary, challenging, and sadly, for too many, they’ve been deadly. But something what has struck me is that ageism is alive and well. The …
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I can’t tell you how much I have valued older people – and that’s throughout the whole of my near thirty-year parish ministry. It’s often said that churches are short …
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Kindness felt like an enormous part of our lives at the start of lockdown. We were scared, and our daily acts of kindness helped us feel that we would all …
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The sentiment and gratitude expressed in this song by ABBA have been, over the last 10 years, expressed and felt by hundreds of people with dementia, their carers and volunteers …
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Since March I and others like me have found ourselves mentioned regularly in the daily news reports – not by name but as a group who, it is said, are …
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