A Study Of Pastoral Care Of The Elderly In Africa

Author : Samuel Ayete-Nyampong
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781496989109

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A Study of Pastoral Care of the Elderly in Africa by Samuel Ayete-Nyampong Pdf

In this book, Rev. Dr. Samuel AyeteNyampong has revealed his passion for the good quality of life for the ageing population in Africa and the development of Pastoral Gerontology courses in Theological Institutions across Africa. This book is a resource material for building the capacity of church leaders in the provision of care and support for the ageing population in Africa. All who read this book will find it inspiring, full of deep thoughts, and a challenge to the church and state, thereby provoking sensitivity to the needs of the ageing population in Africa. This book is highly recommended for church leaders, theological students, students of Gerontology and to all who have a passion to promote the quality of life of the ageing population.

Author : Samuel Ayete-Nyampong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church work with older people
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133134051

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Author : Samuel Ayete-Nyampong (PhD)
Publisher : Author House
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781496989093

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A Study of Pastoral Care of the Elderly in Africa by Samuel Ayete-Nyampong (PhD) Pdf

In this book, Rev. Dr. Samuel Ayete-Nyampong has revealed his passion for the good quality of life for the ageing population in Africa and the development of Pastoral Gerontology courses in Theological Institutions across Africa. This book is a resource material for building the capacity of church leaders in the provision of care and support for the ageing population in Africa. All who read this book will find it inspiring, full of deep thoughts, and a challenge to the church and state, thereby provoking sensitivity to the needs of the ageing population in Africa. This book is highly recommended for church leaders, theological students, students of Gerontology and to all who have a passion to promote the quality of life of the ageing population.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1875 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668452967

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Research Anthology on Supporting Healthy Aging in a Digital Society by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

In today’s rapidly evolving society, there has been an increase in technologies and systems available to support the elderly throughout various aspects of life. We have come a long way in the quality of life we can offer our aging populations in recent years due to these technological innovations, medical advancements, and research initiatives. However, further study of these developments is crucial to ensure they are utilized to their utmost potential in securing a healthier elderly population. The Research Anthology on Supporting Healthy Aging in a Digital Society discusses the current challenges of aging in the modern world as well as recent developments in medicine and technology that can be used to improve the quality of life of elderly citizens. Covering a wide range of topics such as smart homes, remote healthcare, and aging in place, this reference work is ideal for healthcare professionals, gerontologists, therapists, government officials, policymakers, researchers, academicians, practitioners, scholars, instructors, and students.

Author : Pande, Rekha,van der Weide, Theo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781522547730

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Handbook of Research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Aging by Pande, Rekha,van der Weide, Theo Pdf

As people grow older, cultural issues arise. Recognizing how social influences guide and restrict people leads to a better understanding of one’s self and helps people as they age. The Handbook of Research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Aging provides emerging research on midlife issues, physical aspects of aging, and the emotional value in the context of the culture in which people are living. While highlighting topics such as elderly disabilities, quality of life, and gender dimensions, this publication explores self-esteem in older members of society. This book is an important resource for academicians, healthcare professionals, professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on the social and cultural characteristics of growing old.

Author : Paul V.I. Sidlawinde Karenga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030881207

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A West African Model to Address Human Trafficking by Paul V.I. Sidlawinde Karenga Pdf

This book describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa, focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region, and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities’ failure to effectively combat this scourge of humanity. While states’ efforts to fulfill their international obligations in developing anti-trafficking legislations are recognized, their failure to carry out prosecutions of offenders and ensure protection of the victims reveals that law alone is not a sufficient instrument for realizing human rights and improving people’s lives. Faced with the sobering background of less than successful efforts by governmental entities to end the trade in humans, this research study recommends adopting essential elements of Catholic social teaching, which rests on the inherent dignity of human beings allowing the development of political, socio-cultural, and religious reforms that will increase the effectiveness of existing legislation designed to combat trafficking. This faith-based approach highlights the role that religion may play in fulfilling the discretionary provisions of the Palermo Protocol by promoting the welfare and protecting the life and dignity of the victims. Additionally, religion is composed of sound moral ethics that determine people's behavior to refrain from the sinful conduct of trafficking. It also creates a sense of ethical responsibility that promotes supply chain transparency and ethical purchasing as well as advocating social reforms and anti-trafficking legislations initiatives. In fact, the author's approach, may be a model for other regions in the world and will be of interest to scholars, law and policy makers, human rights advocates and law enforcement agents working in the field of trafficking in persons.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030765019

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Aging Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals. It also includes articles on other issues of aging, such as falling, dementia, and elder abuse. It was thought that in Africa or Asia, elders were revered and taken care of. This certainly used to be the case. But the Western way has moved into these places, and we now find that elders are often left on their own or in institutions, as younger people have migrated to other cities and even countries. Grandparents often find themselves being parents to their grandchildren, a far cry from the kind of life they believed they would have as they aged. This book will explore all these issues and will be of use to students and researchers in this relatively new field.

Author : James W Ellor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136402593

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Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care by James W Ellor Pdf

How can you foster spiritual growth in older people?This multidisciplinary work re-examines issues of aging with dignity and spiritual meaning. Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care: A Multi-National Perspective brings together chaplains, pastors, counselors, and health care practitioners in all walks of gerontology from around the world to present a fully rounded picture of the spiritual needs and potentialities of this fast-growing population. It also includes a study of the spiritual awareness of nurses working in six different nursing homes, as well as a model for a parish nursing practice that focuses on the aged. Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care addresses urgent issues for older people, including: social and spiritual isolation the wisdom of the aging the need for intimacy sexuality among older people living with dementia the spiritual dimensions of caregiving

Author : Cati Coe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781978823242

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Changes in Care by Cati Coe Pdf

As Africa's population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care. Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.

Author : Jay Sokolovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781440852022

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The Cultural Context of Aging by Jay Sokolovsky Pdf

From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the "Flexsecurity" system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers cutting-edge and future-focused approaches to our aging population worldwide. In this fourth edition of an award-winning text on the consequences of global aging, a team of expert anthropologists and other social scientists presents the issues and possible solutions as our population over age 60 rises to double that of the year 2000. Chapters describe how the consequences of global aging will influence life in the 21st century in relation to biological limits on the human life span, cultural construction of the life cycle, generational exchange and kinship, makeup of households and community, and attitudes toward disability and death. This completely revised edition includes 20 new chapters covering China, Japan, Denmark, India, West and East Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, indigenous Amazonia, rural Italy, and the ethnic landscape of the United States. A popular feature is an integrated set of web book chapters listed in the contents, discussed in chapter introductions, and available on the book's web site.

Author : Harold George Koenig,Andrew J. Weaver
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 145140378X

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Pastoral Care of Older Adults by Harold George Koenig,Andrew J. Weaver Pdf

By the year 2000 more than 50 percent 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. Harold Koenig and Andrew Weaver address this problem by providing practical guidance in dealing with such issues as Alzheimer's disease, the chronically ill, relocation, health crises, grief, depression, anxiety, gender differences, poverty, and the needs of children of older adults.

Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793618030

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Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa by Chammah J. Kaunda Pdf

Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa argues that, in many African societies, ideas and practices of wellbeing and gender relations continue to be informed and shaped by religious epistemologies. The contributors affirm that for many Africans, it is through religio-spiritual frameworks that daily experiences, interactions, and gender relations are understood and interpreted. However, for many African women, religions have functioned as a double-edged-sword. Although they have contributed to the struggle against issues such as colonialism, gender justice, climate justice, and human rights, they have also endorsed and perpetuated sexism, heterosexism, homophobia, and the denial of human rights for a wide variety of people on the margins. The chapters within this collection demonstrate that most religions and religious formations in Africa have not yet positioned themselves as forces for wellbeing, gender justice, and security for African women and children. The contributors challenge simplistic and superficial readings and interpretations of religio-spirituality in Africa and call for deeper engagements of the interplay between Africa’s religio-spiritual realities and the wellbeing of women, particularly around issues of gender justice, reproductive health, and human rights.

Author : Ezra Chitando,Loreen Maseno,Joram Tarusarira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350307391

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Religion and Inequality in Africa by Ezra Chitando,Loreen Maseno,Joram Tarusarira Pdf

This volume reveals how religion interfaces with inequality in different African contexts. Some contributors undertake detailed analyses of how religion creates (and justifies) different forms of inequality that holds back individuals, groups and communities across the continent from flourishing, while others show how religion can also mitigate inequality in Africa. Topics addressed include gender inequality, economic inequality, disability, ageism and religious homophobia. Specifically focusing on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 10 to reduce inequality within and among countries, this book highlights the extent to which Africa's 'notoriously religious' identity needs to be taken into account in discourses on development.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Men
ISBN : 9783031491672

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities by Ezra Chitando Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical and analytical approaches, topics and debates in contemporary scholarship on African masculinities. Refusing to privilege Western theoretical constructs (but remaining in dialogue with them), contributors explore the contestations around and diversities within men, masculinities and sexualities in Africa; investigate individual and collective practices of masculinity; and interrogate the social construction of masculinities. Bringing together insights from scholars across gender studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, literature and religion, this book demonstrates how recognizing and upholding the integrity of African phenomena, locating and reflecting on men and masculinities in varied African contexts and drawing new theoretical frameworks all combine to take the discourse on men and masculinities in Africa forward. Chapters examine a range of issues within the context of masculinities, including embodiment, sport, violence, militarism, spirituality, gender roles, fatherhood, homosexuality, health and work. This handbook will be valuable reading for scholars, researchers, and policymakers in Gender Studies (particularly Masculinity Studies) and Africana Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Church work with older people
ISBN : OCLC:647752248

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Aging, Spirituality, and Pastoral Care by Anonim Pdf