This video provides a series of answers to questions that develop as people care for others at home or in a health care facility. Serving as a prayer for caregivers, this video explores areas such as what advice can one give to support families who are in “disagreement” in order to best support the patient? And, when someone “loses faith,” how important is it to force the faith issue?

Presenter: Nancy Schweers

In Part 2 of this refection on spirituality and aging, Chaplain Marta Peña discusses the many types of losses we may experience throughout our lives, including material loss, relationship loss, functional loss, intra-psychic loss, roll loss, systemic loss, and ambiguous loss. Reflecting on these losses increases our understanding and appreciation of who we are and why the losses happen.

In Part 1 of this reflection on spirituality and aging, Chaplain Marta Peña explores the spiritual journey that begins at birth and continues throughout our lifetime. Chaplain Peña shares perspectives of attachments and separations and how these experiences impact our spiritual development. She also guides viewers in considering how difficulties strengthen and mold us.

How do you communicate and minister to those with dementia or those who cannot verbally communicate? This video teaches caregivers how to touch the spirit of someone with dementia and learn about their own spirituality in the process. This training serves as a prayer for caregivers and is recommended for pastoral care providers, including lay ministers and volunteers, as well as family care providers.

In this segment, viewers learn how to meditate by “seeing” themselves in the scriptures. They read passages, and then are challenged to reconstruct scenes and take the time to imagine the dialogues and possible feelings. Called guided imagery, this form of meditation can be highly effective.

In this segment of our series on meditation and the elderly, viewers learn the benefits of coming together to study and meditate on the words and phrases of scripture. The presenter explains how doing this in a group can help achieve greater awareness of God’s love through the insights and shared experiences of others.

In segment 4 of our 6-segment series on meditation and the elderly, viewers learn how to study and meditate on the words and phrases of scripture. The presenter explains how doing this in solitude can help achieve greater awareness of God’s love and bring greater understanding for everyday life.

In this segment viewers learn how to engage in meditation to increase their awareness for God, nature, and themselves. This video shows viewers how God draws us deeper into Him through awareness of our bodies and relationships and how to find God in all things through meditation.

In segment 2 of our 6-segment series on meditation and the elderly, viewers learn how to engage in meditation and become present and attentive to focus on God’s love. Meditation is an expression of the whole person, so this video tells how to set aside time to meditate and how to create a meditation environment.

In this segment of our series on meditation and the elderly, viewers learn how meditation can lead us to a deeper awareness of ourselves, the world around us, and God’s love for us. Serving as an introduction to the series, the video explains meditation and how it gives us time to take pause and to become aware that we are already in the presence of a loving and healing God.  

The Jewish faith brings many customs, foods, and rituals that are important to keep in mind when giving care. This series of videos provides cultural sensitivity training for caregivers of Jewish seniors. The introduction briefly describes the four modules in the series, which include an overview of Judaism, Jewish holy days and celebrations, death and dying traditions in Judaism, and how to use what we’ve shared to care for Jewish seniors. The series ends with a final video for questions and answers.