Msw Friedman

Jewish Visions for Aging (eBook, ePUB)

A Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover the Jewish tradition's insights on growing older and eldercare in this groundbreaking resource-the only one of its kind!

"Judaism can be [tremendously] powerful for those searching for new meaning and roles, for perspective on life's profound questions, and for solace amid the inevitable loss and change of later life.... It is time to forge a new paradigm for the Jewish response to aging."
-from the Introduction

From the rapidly changing retirement years to the sometimes wrenching challenges of dementia and chronic illness, spiritual questions and needs among today's elders and caregivers are central. This rich resource probes Jewish texts to offer solutions and suggestions for finding meaning, purpose and community within Jewish tradition.

With timely-and timeless-wisdom, this rich resource probes Jewish texts, spirituality and observance, uncovering a deep, never-before-realized approach to responding to the challenges of aging with a refreshing and inspiring vitality. The insights-spanning textual analysis and spiritual and pastoral perspectives-provide practical guidance in spiritual care and communal programming to dynamically engage and serve elders and their families.

Accessible and honest, Jewish and non-Jewish clergy, chaplains, elder- and healthcare professionals, volunteers and family members will find this guide an invaluable asset as they explore how to empower elders and their families through daily spiritual and communal life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580235310
• Artikelnr.: 38325395

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MA, BCC, is a pioneer in forging a fresh vision for the second half of life. She is a spiritual leader, social innovator, scholar, author of Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide to Fostering Wholeness and editor of Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources. She founded and directed Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Friedman offers training, consulting and spiritual guidance through Growing Older (www.growingolder.co), her Philadelphia-based national practice.

Rabbi Friedman is available to speak to your group or at your event. For more information, please contact us at [phone] or [e-mail].

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Thomas R. Cole, PhD
Preface by Dr. Eugene B. Borowitz
Introduction: Seasons of Splendor-New Visions for Jewish Aging
Part I: Text and Tradition
1. Crown Me with Wrinkles and Gray Hair: Traditional Views and Visions of
Aging
Part II: Aging and Meaning
2. The Mitzvah Model: Meaning and Mission in Late Life
3. Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Nursing Home: Torah for
Confronting Fragility and Mortality
4. Seeking the Tzelem: Making Sense of Dementia
5. Lilmod U'lilamed: Elders as Learners and Teachers of Torah
Part III: Family Caregiving
6. Help with the Hardest Mitzvah: Spiritually Supporting Family Caregivers
7. Beyond Guilt: Perspectives from Tradition on Obligations to Aging
Parents
8. Balancing Parents' and Children's Quality of Life: Ethical Dilemmas in
Family Caregiving
Part 4: Livui Ruchani: Spritual Accompaniment in Aging
9. Enabling Their Faces to Shine: Spiritual Accompaniment with Aging
Individuals
10. PaRDeS: Compassionate Spiritual Presence with Elders
11. Spiritual Challenges and Possibilities for Jews in Long-Term Care
Facilities
12. An Anchor amidst Anomie: Ritual and Aging
Part V: Aging and Community
13. L'Dor Va-Dor: Living the Chain of Tradition through Intergenerational
Programs
14. Weaving the Generations: Congregations as Communities for All Ages
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Credits
Index