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| Spiritual nurturance and support for nursing home residents with dementia | | Author(s) | Bethel Ann Powers, Nancy M Watson |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 10, no 1, February 2011 |
| Pages | pp 59-80 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Needs [elderly] ; Pastoral care. |
| Annotation | This mixed method study examined nursing home resident, family and staff views regarding spiritual nurturance and support for persons with dementia and analysed institutional resources and approaches for meeting residents' spiritual needs. For residents able to communicate in words, this topic evoked a range of emotional content, brought back memories, and yielded information about what mattered to them spiritually. Some observations and reported behaviours of residents unable to be interviewed directly suggested emotional awareness of spiritual activities. Family and staff views and concerns revealed the need for support and training in the provision of spiritual care. Quantitative findings were consistent and identified differences between surveyed nursing homes with and without religious affiliations. Discussion of personhood, religious coping, and meeting spiritual care needs led to conclusions about the role of professional chaplaincy, education for staff about appropriate behaviours in providing spiritual support as well as issues around diversity (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110526008 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: KW: KX: IK: OW |
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