A palliative approach to spirituality in residential aged care

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Title: A palliative approach to spirituality in residential aged care
Author(s): Kristjanson, Linda
Abstract: The chapter describes how a palliative approach to care is relevant in the context of residential aged care, with specific focus on the spiritual needs of residents. Three issues are described that make attention to spirituality in residential aged care particularly challenging: effects of cognitive changes, potential threats to dignity, and uncertainties about how to provide bereavement support to the range of people who experience loss in this care context. Reflections on how residential aged care staff might better assess the spiritual needs of residents are offered with suggestions from the literature about how to sensitively respond to these needs.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, Vol. 18, no. 4 (2006), pp. 189-205
Publication year: 2006
FOR Code(s): 22 Philosophy and Religious Studies
Keyword(s): Aged care; Bereavement; Cognitive impairment; Dignity; Palliative care; Religion; Spirituality
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1552-8030
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J496v18n04_01
Peer reviewed