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Faith in Older People

Enabling a better understanding of the importance of the spiritual dimension to the well-being of older people

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Reflections on a ‘jeely’ bag, a table and the people in our lives

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It is some years now since we cleared my mother’s house, this was necessitated by her entry to a nursing home due to her deteriorating health. The process produced lots …

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Community Chaplaincy Listening Service

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I am writing as the Coordinator of the Community Chaplaincy Listening Service in NHS Fife. This is a national programme run across all health boards in Scotland delivered by Spiritual …

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Charity Focus: Forth Valley Sensory Centre

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Forth Valley Sensory Centre is a unique place that has been helping people with sight and hearing loss across the Forth Valley region since 2006. The first place of its …

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Spiritual care in general practice: what’s happening in practice and training?

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Although a commitment to spiritual care exists in the curriculum of the Royal College of GPs for GP training and in the General Medical Council’s Good Medical Practice, describing what …

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Listening is the first step to tackling hate!

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During the last week in January I had the honour of working with three survivors at various holocaust memorial events in Edinburgh and Falkirk. The survivors were Janine Webber (Holocaust), …

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Making Connections

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Faith in Older People together with the Church of Scotland Guild has been working with an ecumenical group to consider the responses from different denominations as to how they support …

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Care homes and the care needs of frail older people

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During the 1990s, the NHS closed the many long-stay ‘geriatric’ wards and gave the monies to social services in order for them to fund the care of frail older people …

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The challenge for older people is to make sense of life at a stage when loss and change occur more frequently and perhaps more painfully.

Malcolm Goldsmith, founder of Faith in Older People

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Current Projects

There is a growing awareness among both families and professionals that spiritual care is an essential component of holistic, person-centre care. FiOP has developed a range of projects to address today’s challenges:

  • Dementia care and faith communities
  • Spiritual care education
  • Other work

Upcoming Events

  1. Mental Health, Older People and Faith Communities

    16th March - 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  2. The Malcolm Goldsmith Lecture 2021

    11th May - 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  3. We Need to Talk About Death and Dying

    20th May - 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

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Latest news and blog

  • Faith Communities and Mental Health

    16th February 2021
    The mental wellbeing of our society is critically important if …Read articleon Faith Communities and Mental Health
  • Learning more deeply to recognise and serve the community, Part 1

    1st February 2021
    Last year, when we thought we had seen the peak …Read articleon Learning more deeply to recognise and serve the community, Part 1
  • ‘I’m not ageist!  I love the old dears…’

    18th January 2021
    The events of 2020 were “unprecedented”, extraordinary, challenging, and sadly, …Read articleon ‘I’m not ageist!  I love the old dears…’
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