Scoping Review: Spiritual Care Education
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 (HEI …
View ReportBeing Old, Being Bold
A report from CHRISTIANS ON AGEING from its September 2019 Conference; Being Old, Being Bold; living by faith, seeking truth, accepting challenge
View ReportSpiritual Care for People with Dementia in Care Homes: The Purple Bicycle Project
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 …
View ReportKindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy
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 re …
View ReportSpiritual 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
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
View ReportIs Spiritual Care in the health care setting everyone’s business?
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 com …
View ReportDelivery of spiritual care in HBCCC from the community and faith based pastoral care teams
Aim of paper: Identifying and fulfilling the need for community spiritual care engagement with HBCCC units
View ReportTea, Talk and Samosas
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 pion …
View Policy, ReportLoneliness: the public health challenge of our time
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 heal …
View ReportEat Well – A guide for older people in Scotland
Information and practical advice on maintaining a healthy diet in later life. Guide: https://www.eatwellagewell.org.uk/images/AGEeatwell2018WEB.pdf
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