Now here is a confession! Not all of the books on my shelves either at home or here in my study at Sarum College have been read from cover t
Re-reading – Transitions and the Life-course :Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’ by Amanda Grenier
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Transitions and the Lifecourse Challenging the Constructions of ‘Growing Old’
Amanda Greener
256 pages, pbk £26.99,
Does Belief change in Old Age?
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On re-reading - Belief and Ageing :Spiritual pathways in later life
Peter G. Coleman (Editor) Paperback, 192 pages Policy Press Bris
What does it mean to Age Well : Reading Ian Knox Finishing Well
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Ian S. Knox Finishing Well: A God’s-Eye View of Ageing
London: SPCK, 2020. Pp. xiv, 283. Pb. £9.99. ISBN 978-0-281-08349
What shall we make of a frail old age ? On watching Allelujah
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If I had taken any notice of the reviews then I should certainly not have parted with £12 for a cinema ticket to see this film. Based on th
Still Growing : The Creative Self in Older Age
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Still Growing
The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Donald Capps
The Lutterworth press 2015, PB 208pp, 9780718893910, £16.50.
This i
Understanding the Spiritual Shape of Older Age
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The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing
Elizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2017 £19.99
With a background in nursing a
Living with Dementia :People rarely remember what we said but often don’t forget how we made them feel.
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First published in the Salisbury Journal 2 February 2017
At Sarum College we are interested in engaging with and reflecting on what makes for h
Jim Birren
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REMEMBERING JIM BIRREN
One of the towering figures in gerontology has died : James E. Birren, founding
Director of the Andrus Gerontology
The Quest for meaning in later life
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P. G. Coleman, D. Koleva and J. Bornat, eds., Ageing, Ritual and Social
Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western
Europe. Fa
Looking your Age??
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DO YOU LOOK YOUR AGE?
Last month my wife and I were on a Road Scholar trip in Europe and we were having dinner with a Japanese woman. We