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Guest post: O chaplain! My chaplain! Poetry in pastoral care
by Betty Morningstar, clinical social worker in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts, former pastoral care associate at Hebrew SeniorLife, and former Continuing Education Faculty at the Smith College School for Social Work.…
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Spiritual Care with LGBT Older Adults
Watch our webinar on Spiritual Care of LGBT Elders, appropriate for chaplaincy students and chaplains. Participants engaged with diverse learning modalities including small group conversations, a short film, and a verbatim. The…
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Guest post: The Power of a Delusion
by Betty Morningstar, clinical social worker in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts, former pastoral care associate at Hebrew SeniorLife, and former Continuing Education Faculty at the Smith College School for Social Work. Meet Peg Peg…
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Hebrew SeniorLife addresses isolation through home chaplaincy program
We’re pleased to pass along news of an innovative program provided by Hebrew SeniorLife in Roslindale, Massachusetts: Through Hebrew SeniorLife’s Home Care program funded by Combined Jewish Philanthropies, over 1,000 seniors per…
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Webinar: Innovation in End-of-Life Care
Executive Director Michael Skaggs interviews Zac Willette, Lead Facilitator for Allay Care Services. A transcript of this webinar is available below and the slides seen within are available here. Michael Skaggs: Thank you…
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Symposium on needs of older adults now available through streaming video
From Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies: The United States is an aging society with growing economic inequality and socio-cultural diversity. Age-associated disadvantages, such as declining health, overlap with unequal access to…
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The future of Catholic chaplaincy for older adults?
From America magazine: “So many priests are very generous,” said Alan Bowman, vice president of mission integration at Trinity Health, a national Catholic health care provider. “But it’s very, very difficult at times…
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Volunteer opportunity: aging and spiritual well-being
Those in the Boston metro area may be interested in contributing to services provided by Somerville Cambridge Elder Services. SCES has, in particular, volunteer programs built around the spiritual care of the…
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CIL co-founder completes project
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab co-founder Wendy Cadge, along with Sara Paasche-Orlow (Hebrew SeniorLife), Rev. Mary Martha Thiel (Hebrew SeniorLife), Qiang Zhang (Brandeis University), Julia Bandini (Brandeis University), and Carol Damm (Brandeis University) recently concluded…
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Go in Peace
From StoryCorps: Tina Zimmerman
