Does spirituality really matter?: A study on the potential of spirituality for older adult's adjustment to aging

Humboldt, Sofia von; Leal, Isabel; Pimenta, Filipa

doi:10.1111/jpr.12033

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic promoted negative emotions, and in this context older adults expressed frustration, which can be tackled with engaging activities ( Mukhtar, 2020 ). Literature indicated that engagement with life is related to being receptive to different perspectives and activities, often related to older adults’ personal interests ( Reichstadt et al, 2010 ; von Humboldt et al, 2013a , b , 2014 ; von Humboldt and Leal, 2014a , b , 2015b ).…”

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The Upside of Negative Emotions: How Do Older Adults From Different Cultures Challenge Their Self-Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Background and ObjectiveThe outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has raised increased challenges for older adults’ personal growth in diverse cultural settings. The aim of this study was to analyze negative emotions and their role on older adults’ self-growth in Mexico, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, a cross-national qualitative research was carried out.MethodsData were collected from 338 community-dwelling participants aged 65 years and older, using a semi-structured interview protocol. Older adults were asked about negative emotions that significantly contribute to their self-growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Content analysis was used to identify key themes.ResultsSeven main negative emotions (fear, sadness, anger, grief, boredom, loneliness, and shame) significantly contributed to seven themes of self-growth, across the samples: sharing difficult experiences with others, supportive partner, spiritual practices, engagement with life, generativity, volunteering activities, and intimacy and sexual satisfaction. Sharing difficult experiences with others was most pertinent to Mexican (13.9%) and to Italian (3.0%) participants, and a supportive partner to Portuguese (12.1%), and to Spanish participants (6.5%).ConclusionThe findings of this study indicate that negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to their older adults’ self-growth. This study highlighted the cultural diversity of experiences during the pandemics and underlined the upside of negative emotions and its relation to older adults’ self-growth during this period.

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“…In addition, the specific character of spirituality as an opportunity to develop throughout the whole life, including old age, is emphasized by Heszen-Niejodek and Gruszczyńska (2004), who point out that "spirituality is an attribute of every person" (own translation). Spirituality can be further specified in relation to areas in which it operates and manifests itself, such as, i.e., reflection, self-reflection, awareness and self-awareness, wisdom, faith, religion, meditation, contemplation, sensibility, a sense of strength and direct power, autonomy, and a sense of dignity and fulfillment; rational, emotional and perceptive sensitivity; worldview, the will to experience a valuable life filled with hope, plans, dreams, and visions (Von Humboldt et al, 2014).…”

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Supporting elderly patients in strengthening their personal and spiritual health resources

Stelcer,

Bendowska,

Karkowska

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Front. Psychol.

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Care for the sick, including spiritual support is sometimes called holistic medicine. The term bio-psycho-social-spiritual model is sometimes used to describe this type of therapeutic approach patient-oriented medicine. This report indicates the importance of taking into account the spiritual aspect of life due to its beneficial impact on the coping resources activated and the patient’s well-being. Existential and spiritual issues are on the verge of new clinical and research interest in medicine, especially in gerontology, oncology, and palliative care. Clinicians focus not only on symptom control but also on spiritual and existential issues such as spirituality, hope, and meaning. This paper reviews the topic of spirituality in the context of illness and end-of-life care trying to define spirituality within the context of health resources of the subject. Spirituality is perceived in two of its main components: faith/religious beliefs and spiritual well-being. Especially this second construct is reviewed and described as a health resource.

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“…It is argued that in church practices, spirituality matters as Humboldt, Leal and Pimenta (2014) state that it is 'the affirmation of life in a relationship with God, self, community, and the environment that nurtures and celebrates wholeness'. A theological intrinsic flowing from this embodiment shows that it would be underachieving for the churches to engage themselves in Salvokop being unaware that God is the owner of the mission (missio Dei), John 10:10b.…”

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Precarious housing in the Salvokop neighbourhood: A challenge to churches in the inner City of Tshwane

Ntakirutimana

2017

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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This article describes the daunting challenge of precarious housing in Salvokop located in the southern part of inner City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province. Insecure tenure, unmaintained dwellings, overcrowding, mushrooming of backyard shacks and the rise of the informal settlement, all that led to deep levels of vulnerability and neighbourhood deterioration. Current conditions show that life in that neighbourhood is fraught as substandard housing degenerated into slum and squalor. This concern emerged among other salient pressing issues of poverty and vulnerability from the World Café and Focus Groups with the inner city churches including those from Salvokop. The article set out to describe precarious housing, unpleasant living conditions owing to the fact that human beings stay in unsuitable dwellings while the environment deteriorates. Taking into account their circumstances, the article’s aim was to recapture the extent to which the residents suffer as a result of living in dwellings unfit for human habitation, rethinking an alternative model to respond. A theological agenda for future ecclesiological engagement was discerned forthwith recommendations. The article makes a contribution towards the theology of the city in that it stimulates church practices and housing of poor people in Tshwane. It does so by engaging in a unique way grassroots knowledge from the different inner city congregations. This process used the platform of surveys, World Café style gatherings and Focus Groups. In conversation with the primary source, this article also contributed with original data generated with the Salvokop residents whose stories helped to expend on horizons of housing, which is acknowledged. All the inner city church contributors of the realisation of the study objectives are also recognised.

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Does spirituality really matter?: A study on the potential of spirituality for older adult's adjustment to aging

Cited by 24 publications

References 53 publications

The Upside of Negative Emotions: How Do Older Adults From Different Cultures Challenge Their Self-Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

The Upside of Negative Emotions: How Do Older Adults From Different Cultures Challenge Their Self-Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Supporting elderly patients in strengthening their personal and spiritual health resources

Precarious housing in the Salvokop neighbourhood: A challenge to churches in the inner City of Tshwane

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