Pub Date : 2021-10-25DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1985035
Emily K. Dakin, Denise L. Levy, K. Williams
ABSTRACT This article reports on religious and spiritual experiences of 11 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or trans*-identified (LGBT) older adults in rural southern Appalachia. Template analysis of interview data yielded themes including: harmful experiences with Christianity in childhood and adulthood, religion and spirituality as sources of support, current participation in supportive Christian churches, and personalized approaches to spirituality and religion. Despite prior harmful experiences in some cases, religion and spirituality now provided meaning, strength, and support for most of the participants. The article concludes with implications for theory, research, and professional practice for clergy, social workers and other helping professionals.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1992698
Kathryn A Lyndes, G. Fitchett
ABSTRACT It is acknowledged that religion and spirituality (R/S) are important to many older adults. The aim of this pilot study was to explore the feasibility of gathering details about R/S care provided for older adults living in a diverse sample of residential care centers. This included the types of services and descriptions of the staff and volunteers who provided them. While the convenience sample was small, results indicated that a more systematic study is feasible and is needed to determine the levels of R/S care and staffing and the degree of R/S need in older adults living in these centers.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-23DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1977760
Stephanie M. Liu, Andrea L. Canada, Laura Dryjanska
Although people do not explicitly deny that individuals with dementia are human, their treatment of individuals with dementia reveals a subtle denial of full personhood (Doyle & Rubinstein, 2014). There has been a movement advocating for individuals with dementia to be treated as persons instead of as individuals defined by their disease (Kitwood, 1997; Norman, 1996). Efforts to preserve the personhood of individuals with dementia will become more critical as this population is expected to dramatically increase from 4.7 million as estimated in 2010 to 13.8 million by 2050 (Hebert et al., 2013).
虽然人们没有明确否认痴呆症患者是人类，但他们对痴呆症患者的治疗却显示出对完整人格的微妙否认(Doyle & Rubinstein, 2014)。有一项运动倡导将痴呆症患者作为人来对待，而不是根据其疾病来定义个体(Kitwood, 1997年;诺曼,1996)。由于痴呆症患者预计将从2010年的470万急剧增加到2050年的1380万，因此保护痴呆症患者人格的努力将变得更加重要(Hebert et al.， 2013)。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1978366
Taiane Abreu, Ó. Ribeiro, Lia Araújo
ABSTRACT Gerotranscendence explains the psychosocial changes in later life and how one acquires a more transcendent life view. This study seeks to increase the evidence on the association between gerotranscendence, life satisfaction, and religiosity. Specifically, this study aims to: investigate whether the gerotranscendence levels of committed clergy and consecrated religious (CCR) individuals differ from those of non-clergy and non-consecrated religious (non-CCR) persons; to examine if religiosity is significantly related to gerotranscendence; and to analyze the relationship between life satisfaction and gerotranscendence. A total of 55 participants with a mean age of 76.5 (SD 8.9) completed a sociodemographic questionnaire and three scales, one for each construct: gerotranscendence, life satisfaction, and religiosity. Results showed that the CCR group presented significantly higher scores on all instruments and that all correlations between scales were significantly positive. Differences between groups help to understand the importance of individual and collective aspects of life circumstances for gerotranscendence development.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1973188
J. Ellor
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Pub Date : 2021-08-29DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1959490
John Willis Ward
written from the idea individuals have awareness and personhood in-utero without providing much rationale for how this may be true. Lastly, his texts do not appear to take into account the need for trauma informed care. Though he discusses how events may impact a person’s life, he does not specify or delineate trauma from other negative experiences, and this could be problematic due to our current understanding of the biological, psychological, and spiritual impacts trauma may have.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1958976
Lindsey N. Anderson
Haber’s (2013) sixth edition of Health Promotion and Aging: Practical Applications for Health Professionals provides updated and relevant information regarding healthy aging and the older adult pop...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-30DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1958973
Somaya Abdullah
ABSTRACT This study examined kinship care arrangements of older persons in a South African Muslim community. The aim was to understand kinship care in this community in the context of culturally sensitive welfare services delivery. Using a Grounded Theory approach, older persons and their caregivers living in intergenerational households were interviewed about their living and care arrangements. A societal context of family life in circumstances of a socio-historical legacy of colonialism and apartheid formed the backdrop of the research. Religion and the country’s poor socio-economic conditions emerged as important drivers of kinship care. Family preservation and survival, constructed through maintaining intergenerational living, reciprocity and mutual support, and the authoritative status of the older persons in the home, characterised this environment. Kinship care was a means of fulfilling a religious duty and living in accordance with an Islamic life. However, these arrangements occurred both in support and at the expense of the older persons. Kinship care arrangements are replicated globally in both Muslim majority countries and where Muslims live as minorities in secular societies; they are not static and are influenced by societal conditions that can impact on the lives of older persons. These findings thus have relevance for Muslim communities generally.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-29DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1959862
H. Deal
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society: From Generation to Generation is a successful festschrift, a collection of 15 writings to honor leading family sociologist and gerontological scholar Vern Be...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2021.1958974
Laura Upenieks
ABSTRACT While trust in God is a fundamental component of religious life, it has received little attention in the literature. The current study considers trust-based prayer expectancies and how these may influence life satisfaction in a longitudinal study of Christian older adults from the United States. We find that older adults with increasing trust in God over time as well as those with stable high levels of trust in God reported higher life satisfaction. The relationship between increasing trust in God and higher life satisfaction was stronger for Black older adults. We then discuss the implications of these findings.
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