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Aging and God: Spiritual Pathways to Mental Health in Midlife and
Later Years
Harold G. Koenig / Hardcover / Haworth Press, Incorporated,
January 1994
Description:
This book comprehensively examines the
important role that religion plays in the lives of older adults.
In its 543 pages and 23 chapters, the book covers topics such as
the relationship between psychiatry and religion, theories of
aging and human development, theories of faith development,
depression and medical illness, use of religion to cope, religion
and depression, religious and anxiety, spiritual needs of
physically ill elders, use of religion in psychotherapy, religion
in the nursing home and Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism and sexual
dysfunction, family and bereavement, religious conversion in later
life, hope for the dying, suicide in later life, and the role of
physician assisted suicide.
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