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Faith-based initiatives and aging services /

Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderlyReligious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have worked on behalf of older adults for centuries. But the initiatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Netting, F. Ellen, Ellor, James W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Pastoral Press, ©2004.
Colección:Journal of religious gerontology monographic "separates."
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Separation of church and state: impact on faith-based services
  • The role of religious congregations in the social service system
  • Faith-related agencies and their implications for aging services
  • Dialogue with Elizabeth Seale-Scott, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Baptist perspectives on faith-based initiatives and religious liberty
  • Managing older volunteers
  • Faith organizations and ethnically diverse elders: a community action model
  • The heritage of religion and spirituality in the field of gerontology: Don Clingan, Tom Cook, and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.