Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments

* Introduction
* An Old Woman's Story
* Beginning Assumptions
* The Role of Personal Experience
* The Role of Grief Education
* Concerns About Aging
* Historical Trends and Eldercare
* The Grief Education Workshop Format
* An Overview of This Book
* Chapter 1: The Challenge of Grief Education for Caregivers of the Institutionalized Elderly
* Grief and Loss Support Services Needed
* The Scope of the Need
* A Mandate for Grief Education
* The Goal of Grief Education
* Grief Education Objectives
* Chapter 2: Aging and the Elderly
* The Development of Life Span Perspective
* Characteristics of Old Age
* Definitions of Aging
* The Grief of Growing Old
* A Description of the Aging Process
* Explanatory Theories of Aging
* Chapter 3: Bereavement and the Elderly
* Universal Bereavement Responses
* General Observations
* Why Do We Grieve?
* Grief as Normal Life Crisis
* Bereavement Study
* Types of Loss
* The Tasks of Mourning
* Grief Work: How Long?
* Factors That Affect the Course of Grief
* Phases of Bereavement
* Effects of Bereavement in Elderly
* Chapter 4: Death and Dying and the Elderly
* Death and Society
* Dying and the Individual
* Death and Dying: A Developmental Point of View
* Death and Dying Responses
* Dying with Integrity
* The Dying Process
* Tasks of the Dying Person
* Complications
* Death and Dying and Elderly Persons
* Death and the Life Cycle
* Chapter 5: Workshop Design--A Successful Model
* Workshop Expectations
* A Successful Program
* Phases of Workshop Design
* Generalizations of Learning
* Summary: The Ten Commandments of Grief Education
* Chapter 6: Caregivers: Practitioners, Helpers, and Companions
* Who Is a Caregiver?
* Developing a Continuum of Care Model
* Continuum of Care Contexts
* Caregiver Frustrations
* Obstacles to Caregiving
* To Help or Not To Help?
* Predisposition to Assist Aging and Dying Elderly Persons
* General Caregiving Intervention Goals
* Stage-Appropriate Objectives
* The Role of the Grief Counselor
* Counseling and the Elderly
* The Caregiver and Self-Care
* Chapter 7: Clergy as Caregivers
* Pastoral Care Traditions
* Community Traditions of Pastoral Care
* Pastoral Caregiving Experiences
* Assessment of Clergy as Caregivers
* Problems with the Pastoral Caregiving Task
* A Definition of Pastoral Care to the Grieving and Elderly
* The Goal of Pastoral Caregiving
* Pastoral Objectives for Working with the Aged, Bereaved, and Dying
* General Pastoral Care Strategies Reviewed
* The Art of Pastoral Caregiving: Learnings from Ministry with Elderly People
* The Pastoral Caregiver as Recovered Healer
* Chapter 8: Envisioning Eldercare: The Next Fifty Years
* The Future of Eldercare
* Challenge One: Understanding the Realities of Old Age
* Challenge Two: Creating Spaces for Ethical Dialogue
* Challenge Three: Conserving Resources and Enhancing Quality Care
* Challenge Four: Using Education As a Resource
* Challenge Five: Caregiving When All Our Houses Are Full of the Elderly
* Conclusion
* Appendixes: Workshops
* Workshop 1. Attachment, Loss, and the Process of Mourning
* Objectives
* Schedule
* Personal Grief History
* Grief and Loss Case Study
*  Participant Evaluation Form
* Workshop 2. Bereavement
* Schedule
* Aging: As I Imagine Myself
* Behaviors That Encourage Expression of Needs
* Bereavement Workshop Evaluation Form
*  Workshop 3. Grief and Loss
*  Schedule
* Death and Dying: Attitudes Checklist
*  Workshop 4. The Art of Caring for the Dying Person
*  About the Workshop
* Schedule
*  Registration Form
*  Workshop 5. When Someone Dies
* Workshop Objectives
*  Schedule
*  Caregiv

About the Author

Koenig, Harold G; Mccall, Junietta B