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Living in the end times
— a short course addressing end of life issues for older people in an English parish church setting | | Author(s) | Joanna Collicutt |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 19, no 3, 2015 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2015 |
| Pages | pp 140-149 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Death ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Church of England ; Pilot. |
| Annotation | The author reports on a pilot study that evaluated an innovative practice in a faith community context designed to help older people live well at the end of life and to prepare for death. Evaluation was by a simple audit of the intervention using a contemporaneous journal kept by the author, and a follow-up questionnaire completed by participants. Findings indicate a high degree of engagement by participants, the establishment of a high degree of group intimacy and trust, a high level of articulation of wisdom, the emergence of significant anxiety in some isolated cases, and the use made of tea and cake to manage the transition between the existentially demanding nature of the discussions and normal life. The outcome indicated very high levels of appreciation and increased confidence in relation to issues of death and dying. The findings of the pilot have been used to inform training of clergy in the principles of working in this area (e.g. in ways of managing group dynamics and anxiety, pacing, tuning in to archetypes, and the natural symbols that people use to talk about death and dying, self-care and supervision of the programme leader/facilitator). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150904211 A |
| Classmark | CW: CX: LV: TT: 4UC |
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