Building and Sustaining Compassionate Communities Conference
Faith in Older People and the Church of Scotland Guild in collaboration with Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care hosted a conference on 27 November 2019. When faced with the reality of deteriorating health, caring responsibilities, death or bereav …
View PresentationBeing 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 ReportOne Step at a Time Conference
The following are the presentations (PowerPoint and PDF) given by the various speakers at our Conference on Tuesday 17 September 2019 02 Mary Marshall Jenny Henderson One Step at a Time 03 Catriona Robertson Worshipping with people with dementia 04 Vic …
View PresentationSpiritual 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 ReportRoundtable: Ageing with Purpose and Passion
The aim of the roundtable was to provide an opportunity to consider what we understood as ageing well, why the spiritual dimension matters and to produce some action points. It was an informal programme with presentations and discussion. FiOP previousl …
View PresentationCan Theology be Practical?
This was the question we addressed in a Roundtable discussion in October 2018 with presentations from distinguished speakers and questions posed from an invited group of participants. Our speakers included Professor John Swinton, Aberdeen University …
View PresentationSpiritual 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 …
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