This collection of essays and research studies will help clergy, nursing home staff, and family members to address the spiritual questing and questioning of the elderly. Essays were first published in the Quarterly Papers on Religion and Aging, between 1984 and 1994. Watkins is professor at the Ins

Reveals several barriers to the spiritual wellness of our elders, including stereotypical views of frailty and incompetence in older people, the lack of common support by communities of faith, and the dissatisfaction of the elderly with outdated, traditional answers to their concerns of aging, suffering and death.

Reveals several barriers to the spiritual wellness of our elders, including stereotypical views of frailty and incompetence in older people, the lack of common support by communities of faith, and the dissatisfaction of the elderly with outdated, traditional answers to their concerns of aging, suffering and death.

Find solace and wise counsel in these classics of spiritual gerontology

In these days, when so many people live beyond the Biblical threescore and ten, the spiritual questing and questioning of the aged demands a meaningful response from clergy, family members, and nursing home staff. The essays and research studies reprinted in Religion and Aging: An Anthology of the Poppele Papers investigate the role of faith in older people's lives. Many of these classic studies have been updated with new information.

These essays were originally published in the Quarterly Papers on...