meaningful ageing prospective member info

WelcomeJuly 2016

Thefollowinginformationisasummaryofcurrentmemberbenefits(July2016)

Ifyouwouldlikefurtherinformationaboutanyresource,pleasegetintouchwithus

admin@meaningfulage.org.au

Ourfocus

Mission:accesstohighqualitypastoralandspiritualcareforallolderpeopleinAustralia

Wecreatehighquality,easytouseresourcesfororganisations,andadvocateforspiritualcaretobeincludedinallcaremodels.

Whyspirituality?

• TheWorldHealthOrganisationviewsspiritualityasinextricablylinkedtoqualityoflife.

• Numerousstudiesdemonstratethatspiritualityissignificantforolderpeople,includingreducedloneliness,improvedmentalhealthandresilienceinageing.

Seeforexample,Fenton,E.,&Mitchell,T.(2002).Growingoldwithdignity:aconceptanalysis.NursingOlderPeople,14(2),19-21;Goh.A,Eagleton.T,Kelleher.R,Yastrubetskaya.O,Taylor.M,Chiu.E,...Lautenschlager.N.T.(2014).Pastoralcareinoldagepsychiatry:Addressingthespiritualneedsofinpatientsinanacuteagedmentalhealthunit.Asia-PacificPsychiatry,6(2),127-134;MacKinlay,E.(2012a).CareofElderlyPeople.InCobb,M.,Puchalski,C.&Rumbold,B.(Eds.),OxfordTextbookofSpiritualityinHealthcare.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress;MacKinlay,E.(2012b).PalliativeCare,AgeingandSpirituality:AGuideforOlderPeople,CarersandFamilies.London:JessicaKingsley.

NationalGuidelinesforSpiritualCareinAgedCare

Public website from 9 August 2016:• PDF of the Guidelines• Basic implementation supports• Literature review• Stakeholder consultation report• A place to share your stories• Order form for printed copies

Member’s Zone• Implementation Tools – ongoing

series of tools to support your implementation

Member’sZone

• Member-only resources• Any number of staff can create

their own login

Share your organisational code with:

Quality staffLocal managersLifestyle staffTeam leadersPeople and cultureLearning and developmentMission/pastoral care team

Member’sZoneResourcesClearingHouse

• Organised under themes

• Minimum of ten links under each theme

• Growing each month

• Saves you and your team time searching on-line

Member’sZoneMeaningfulAgeingSeminarsContent

• Videos and other content from seminars from your location

• Use for staff and volunteer professional development

• Arranged in topics

Member’sZoneSpiritualCareConsiderationsSeries

• Rollingseriescoveringawiderangeofneeds• Useasareferenceforallstaffatkeypointssuchasintake,assessment,changeofstatus

• Addacopytothecarerecipient'sfileasaprompt• Useforreflection/professionaldevelopmentdiscussions• LinkstofurtherresourcesintheResourcesClearingHouse

Member’sZoneNationalTrainingGuide

• Accredited pastoral and spiritual care education nationally

• Saves you time searching

SpiritualCareOrientationProgramforallstaffinagedcare

• Popular 45 minute introductory program on spiritual care in aged care

• Use your in-house educators to facilitate• DVD for remote locations without a facilitator• Contact us if you need assistance with

facilitation• Contact us for copies (no charge)

Member’s Zone has additional resources for you to download:• Participant handout• Poster to reinforce key messages• Prompts to include in handovers

Dementia-SpecificChristianWorship

• Accessiblehow-toguideontheevidence-basedprogramfromCofC Qld

• Givetonewchurchservicevolunteers,Lifestylestaff,faithcommunityvisitorsand/orpastoralstaff

• Useasabenchmark• Contactusforcopies(nocharge)

Memberbenefitscont.

• QualityAwards

• Expertadviceaboutpastoral/spiritualcareinyourorganisation• Presentationsatstaffconferences(travelcoststobemetbyhost)

• ReducedpriceaccesstolocalMeaningfulAgeingSeminars – NOTE:Newcastle&WaggaWaggalate2016

• ReducedpriceaccesstotheMeaningfulAgeing/HTNSpiritualCareVolunteertrainingpackage(2017)

Newsletter– membercontributionsinvited

PASCOP Meaningful Ageing Australia eNewsletter •  May  •  2016 View this email in your browser

May 2016Welcome to our May update

From the Chief Executive Officer 

On 20 April 2016, PASCOP members voted tochange our name to Meaningful Ageing Australia. Asdiscussed in our previous newsletter, the Boardchose this name as it captures our intent, and is adoor-opener for those who don't realise thatspirituality is everybody's business. The mediarelease is here.

Here at Meaningful Ageing Australia, we continue to meet many people who havewritten themselves, and those they are caring for, out of the spirituality story.  Ournew name helps to facilitate that important first conversation about the place ofspirituality in all our lives.  Our mission and activities are the same - our new webaddress is www.meaningfulageing.org.au and new email isadmin@meaningfulage.org.au. We will gradually update all our documents with thenew logo. Our old web address and email addresses will be diverted to the newaddresses. All phone numbers are the same.

We have had lots of interest in our activities from delegates at both the Spiritual CareAustralia National Conference and the ACS NSW/ACT state conference this monthwhere we ran trade displays. Welcome to all the newcomers from those events whosigned up for our newsletter! It's great to have an ever-expanding circle ofcolleagues committed to whole of life care for older people.

I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of our members over the last couple ofmonths and am enjoying getting great feedback about the resources we arereleasing this year. If you have an idea about a new resource that would assist yourorganisation with high quality pastoral and spiritual care, please get in touch with us -admin@meaningfulage.org.au.

• Monthly public newsletter plus occasional other updates

• Newsletter has very high engagement – open rate and click through rates are well above industry averages

• List is growing every day

• Members can share examples of meaning, purpose and connectedness in your organisation – submit 250 words with a picture (consent included) for consideration admin@meaningfulage.org.au

Forthcoming

• ConnecTo – spiritualscreeningtoolthatmakessenseforallstaffandcarers

• Useduringcarerecipientintake

• Useforstaffdevelopment

Membership

• Opentoanygroupororganisation thatprovidessupport/accommodationforolderpeople

• Contactusforfurtherinformation0383872274

• Membershipapplicationformisonourwebsitehttp://meaningfulageing.org.au/becoming-a-member/

Thank you for your interest

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