✓ Please consider the Handbook pages 44-54 in this workshop.
✓ Question 1: The ageing process in the later years is generally associated with loss and therefore grief. What do we lose as we age?
✓ Question 2: Think of two older people you know and have known for some time. Has their personality changed? If there have been any changes, in what ways have they taken place? Have there been any circumstances that might have caused the changes?
✓ Question 3: Suggest a number of ways you might be able to help stimulate an elderly person during a conversation with them. Now suggest some ‘don’ts’ that will only send them to sleep!
✓ Question 4: Use your imagination to think of the circumstances whereby each person might have arrived at this particular state. Then reflect on their position, considering:
♦ Their age; ♦ their attitude to death; ♦ the nature of their condition; ♦ their spiritual well-being
✓ Question 5: How might you approach them to assist in their spirituality?
✓ What are three points that struck you as important as you watched the video Order and Chaos (Carmel Hayden)?
Thank you.