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Still Growing : The Creative Self in Older Age

Still Growing : The Creative Self in Older Age

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Still Growing The Creative Self in Older Adulthood Donald Capps The Lutterworth press 2015, PB 208pp, 9780718893910, £16.50.   This is the most delightful of books in its thoroughness, scholarship and creativity. It has all the potential to transform the readers understanding of the nature of age. In our functional and reductionist world that over values youth, strength and output these seven chapters challenge much negativity around the shape of older age.   Carefully organised into three parts Capps explores…

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Understanding the Spiritual Shape of Older Age

Understanding the Spiritual Shape of Older Age

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  The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing  Elizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers  2017  £19.99 With a background in nursing and specialisation in gerontological nursing much of McKinley’s focus over the past years has been on age and spirituality. Her preparation for Ministry nurtured priest and nurse in a commitment to deepening our understanding of the ageing process, its physical and psychosocial needs, and the common disease conditions of older adults. Her body of research work and books have been a fundamental …

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Living with Dementia :People rarely remember what we said but often don’t forget how we made them feel.

Living with Dementia :People rarely remember what we said but often don’t forget how we made them feel.

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First published in the Salisbury Journal 2 February 2017 At Sarum College we are interested in engaging with and reflecting on what makes for human flourishing. You will have a sense of what it is that helps you to live what inspires your enthusiasm for life. Being able to remember is one of those dimensions of living that contributes to our flourishing though many of us take this for granted. As we grow older, memories play a larger part in…

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Jim Birren

Jim Birren

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REMEMBERING JIM BIRREN   One of the towering figures in gerontology has died : James E. Birren, founding Director of the Andrus Gerontology Center, at the University of Southern California, died at the age of 97.  His achievements were extraordinary   Foremost among these, is creation of the Andrus Gerontology Center at USC, as well as the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.  His books and other publications are extensive, and many distinguished gerontologists have been  nurtured by Jim Birren.  To get just a…

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The Quest for meaning in later life

The Quest for meaning in later life

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P. G. Coleman, D. Koleva and J. Bornat, eds., Ageing, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Pp. xviii, 283. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4094-5215-7. This volume is a compelling and authoritative contribution to the literature that seeks to understand our quest for meaning in later life. The twelve essays, carefully organised and edited, make a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature of ageing in…

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Looking your Age??

Looking your Age??

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DO YOU LOOK YOUR AGE?   Last month my wife and I were on a Road Scholar trip in Europe and we were having dinner with a Japanese woman.  We got to talking about age and she asked how old I was. “Seventy” I replied, thinking of Gloria Steinem’s apt phrase, “This is how 70 looks.”  Our dinner partner said to me, “No!  You don’t look 70 at all,” and I instantly felt a tinge of pride at my good…

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