A Carer's Guide: How to help someone spiritually towards the end of life
How do we look after ourselves and others better in the wake of a health crisis such as Covid-19? This Carer’s Guide series offers practical help and guidance to carers who find themselves needing to provide spiritual support to older people or others in residential care. The aim of these guides is to give you the confidence and skills to enable those in your care not only to cope emotionally and spiritually but even to thrive, despite challenging circumstances.
This guide offers advice on how you can be a reassuring presence, to give a dying person confidence that they will not suffer undue pain, and that ‘everything is going to be all right’.
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Title | A Carer's Guide: How to help someone spiritually towards the end of life |
Author | Debbie Thrower |
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Description | How do we look after ourselves and others better in the wake of a health crisis such as Covid-19? This Carer’s Guide series offers practical help and guidance to carers who find themselves needing to provide spiritual support to older people or others in residential care. The aim of these guides is to give you the confidence and skills to enable those in your care not only to cope emotionally and spiritually but even to thrive, despite challenging circumstances. Debbie Thrower, Founder and Pioneer of Anna Chaplaincy for Older People, says: ‘Some of the lessons learned by Anna Chaplains are shared here so that spiritual care – along with medical, practical and emotional care – becomes accessible to all.’ |
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How do we look after ourselves and others better in the wake of a health crisis such as Covid-19? This Carer’s Guide series offers practical help and guidance to carers who find themselves needing to provide spiritual support to older people or others in residential care. The aim of these guides is to give you the confidence and skills to enable those in your care not only to cope emotionally and spiritually but even to thrive, despite challenging circumstances.
This guide offers advice on how you can be a reassuring presence, to give a dying person confidence that they will not suffer undue pain, and that ‘everything is going to be all right’.
Debbie Thrower, Founder and Pioneer of Anna Chaplaincy for Older People, says: ‘Some of the lessons learned by Anna Chaplains are shared here so that spiritual care – along with medical, practical and emotional care – becomes accessible to all.’
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Debbie Thrower is the pioneer of Anna Chaplaincy, a Christian initiative from The Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF), which nevertheless offers spiritual care for all – whether they are of strong, little or no faith at all. There are now more than 140 community-based Anna Chaplains and their equivalents across England and Wales.