Visiting the Memory Café and other Dementia Care Activities
Evidence-based Interventions for Care Homes
Edited by Caroline Baker and
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Confused Angry Anxious?
Why working with older people in care can be really difficult and what to do about it
Bo Hejlskov Elven, Charlotte Agger
The Age of Potential
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An address given to the pupils and Staff of Bishop Wordsworth School
Salisbury Cathedral Shrove Tuesday 28th February 2017
I wonder wh
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
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. Fa
CONFUCIUS AT SEVENTY
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"At fifteen I was committed to learning.
At thirty I took my rightful position.
At forty, I was no longer totally perplexed.
At fifty, I
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
What is Age?
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"Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were
interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow mor
Seeing beyond the immediate: listening and learning alongside older people
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From 1998 through to 2009, I had the privilege of working with many hundreds of older people in an Almshouse charity. We lived together in rather sp
PABLO CASALS ON AGEING
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On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old. That is not young, of course.
In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative mat
Understanding Age? Face the Future….
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It has been a great pleasure to offer a Forward to this stimulating contribution the literature on old age by the delightful William Cutting
Forewo
you will greet yourself…..
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LOVE AFTER LOVE
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each wi
THE ASTONISHMENT OF AGE – learning from Jung
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When my friend's mother developed dementia, he was discouraged that each day she seemed to be losing so much.
Then he remembered a saying f
Memories
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We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes int
Remembering Maya Angelou
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I started my blogging life in 2008 partly as a way of capturing my experience of a sabbatical in America. In the spring of that year I spent
the costs of trying to avoid the inevitable
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From todays Church Times
James Woodward on the costs of trying to avoid the inevitable
Should We Live Forever? The ethical ambiguities of aging
New Year Resolution: Embrace Change
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hammered gold and gold enamelling
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, a
A Lack of Soul?
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AGEING AND CARE OF THE SOUL
Thomas Moore has described the fundamental psychological problem of contemporary life as
a lack of “
Growing Older?
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BEDE GRIFFITHS: THE MONK GROWS OLD
Father Bede Griffiths was a a Catholic monk who spent most of his life as a
"Christian Yogi" in India, where
AGING AND THE TRANSITORINESS OF LIFE
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In old age something special happens to reality. Its hardness is softened by the experience of transitoriness. Persons who once seemed indispensab