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The evaluation of spiritual care in a dementia care setting

Margaret A. Goodall

MHA Care Group, UK, margaret.goodall{at}mha.org.uk

Spiritual care has become an integral part of the care package offered to older people who move to residential care. However, spirituality is a word that can mean everything or nothing and as such becomes difficult to define. Assessment of `spiritual care' becomes a real challenge, because it raises important questions. These are as follows: the nature of spiritual care; how it is offered; and who takes responsibility for it. This is especially true in dementia care homes where residents cannot normally take part in evaluation. This paper offers a model of evaluation of spiritual care by using reflection, relationship and restoration, and through observing the virtues described in the Biblical concept of `fruit of the spirit'.

Key Words: dementia • evaluation • spiritual care

Dementia, Vol. 8, No. 2, 167-183 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1471301209103249
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