Older Adult Ministries:
Articles



Well-Connected: Across the Miles, from The Commonhealth Compass, Winter edition, 2003

Is assisted living the right choice?, a collection of articles excerpted from Consumer Reports, January, 2001 (PDF Files)

Generations Reach Goals Differently, from the Business Section of The Roanoke Times & World News, April 15, 2001

 

Rituals and Celebrations for Older Adults: Marking Passages, Demonstrating Support, by Patricia K. Suggs and Douglas L. Suggs (from Aging & Spirituality, Summer, 2000)

 

Older Women Find That Prayer Matures Along With Them, by Susan Perschbacher Melia (from Aging & Spirituality, Spring, 2001)

 

Churchgoers Live Longer, printed in Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, adapted from Churchgoing Linked to Lower Mortality by Rebecca Levine (8/27/99 issue of Dialogue)

 

REPORT: News Mixed on Life and Health for Older Americans..., from Roanoke Times & World News, August, 2000

 

A "Grand" Summer Experience, from Presbyterians Today, October, 2000 (an article about Grand Expectations 2000)

 

Synod Tour Brings Generations Together, Albert C. Winn and John Ellis, The Presbyterian Outlook, October, 2000 (a participants account of Grand Expectations 2000)

 

A Doctor's Unique Living Will, taken from Medical Economics Archive, February 29, 2001, 4:140.

 

FIRST PAWS: Witness the companionship and comfort that pets can bring.

 

FIRST PAWS, from the Foothills Presbytery News.

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