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Scoping Review: Spiritual Care Education

Posted on 18th January 2021

Faith in Older People has just completed this scoping review to examine pre- and post-registration education in spiritual care for nurses and allied health professionals, excluding medicine and chaplaincy, in Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) March – September 2020 Ruth E Aird QGN ONC MSc Ed and Maureen O’Neill BA(Hons), DMS. This project was funded […]

Being Old, Being Bold

Posted on 14th November 2019

A report from CHRISTIANS ON AGEING from its September 2019 Conference;  Being Old, Being Bold; living by faith, seeking truth, accepting challenge

Spiritual Care for People with Dementia in Care Homes: The Purple Bicycle Project

Posted on 27th June 2019

This report covers the Purple Bicycle Workshops which were part of the project funded by the Life Changes Trust. a programme of workshops on the ‘Purple Bicycle Project’ which is aimed at helping staff, family and friends to elicit the spiritual needs of people experiencing dementia Spiritual Care for People with Dementia in Care Homes […]

Kindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy

Posted on 17th June 2019

The Carnegie UK Trust launched Kindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy, a report written by Carnegie Fellow, Julia Unwin CBE, and informed by a series of roundtables and events across the UK in November 2018. This report brings together all that we have learnt over the last two years.  It […]

Spiritual Care Education in Hospital Based Complex Continuing Care units in one health board area in Scotland:  A qualitative appreciative enquiry into spiritual care delivery by health care workers

Posted on 17th April 2019

A collaborative study between Faith in Older People and NHS Lothian Spiritual Care Spiritual Care Education in Hospital Based Complex Continuing Care units FINAL REPORT FEB 2018  

Is Spiritual Care in the health care setting everyone’s business?

Posted on 17th April 2019

Introduction In 2015 the then head of the spiritual care team in Lothian Health Board, Scotland, became concerned that the gradual reduction in hours allotted to the team was having an adverse effect on the spiritual care in the nine hospital based complex clinical care (HBCCC) units in the area. He brought together a working […]

Delivery of spiritual care in HBCCC from the community and faith based pastoral care teams

Posted on 17th April 2019

Aim of paper: Identifying and fulfilling the need for community spiritual care engagement with HBCCC units

Tea, Talk and Samosas

Posted on 27th March 2019

The Tea, Talk and Samosas report is the culmination of a project with a group of older South Asian women living in Great Harwood, Lancashire, working in partnership with Age UK Lancashire. The new report details findings and recommendations from a pioneering project aimed at engaging the South Asian community in planning ahead for end-of-life […]

Loneliness: the public health challenge of our time

Posted on 27th March 2019

A policy briefing by the Mental Health Foundation and Age Scotland Loneliness is one of the leading public health challenges of our time. Research suggests more than 100,000 older people in Scotland are “chronically lonely” and it’s as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day. If we are serious about ensuring older people […]

Scottish Government Culture strategy: full engagement report

Posted on 21st November 2018

“The Scottish Government committed to developing A Culture Strategy for Scotland in the Programme for Government 2016-17 and underlined this commitment in its Programme for Government 2017-18. The strategy will show how important culture is to the future of individuals, communities across Scotland and Scotland as a whole – with a central ambition of enabling […]

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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:

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