Pastoral Care of Older Adults (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling)

By the year 2000 more than half of mainline Protestants will be over the age of sixty. Older adults have special needs to which many pastors are not adequately prepared to minister. Pastoral Care of Older Adults addresses such problems many of which were identified in an extensive survey of clergy. The book provides practical guidance for parish pastors and other counselors to deal with such issues as Alzheimers disease the chronically ill relocation health crises grief depression anxiety gender differences poverty and the issues faced by the children of older adults.