Mary Marshall - Catching the threads (or rather catching some personal threads)
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- 1. Catching the threads (or rather catching some personal threads) Mary Marshall
- 2. A personal view • Who am I? • Language • FiOP
- 3. Main Threads • Creativity • Resilience • Spiritual care • Love • Optimism • Rhetoric • Tears and stories • Reciprocity • Continuity • Change • Diversity
- 4. Creativity • Arts are the best way of changing stereotypes: of ‘standing outside the dominant view of ageing’ • A wave of creativity • We can learn ‘how to’ even if we can no longer learn facts • Work as creativity • Communication
- 5. Resilience • ‘Capable of regaining its original shape or position after bending, stretching or other deformation • Recovering easily and quickly from illness, hardship’ • Retaining zest for life • Dignified autonomy under pressure in thought and action
- 6. Spirituality • No point in defining spirituality (though many people had a good try) • Exemplary figures who embody values you want to imitate • Selling it • Embodied spirituality
- 7. Love
- 8. Optimism • We have been on an island of optimism • Just passing references to fear, poor care, shrinking budgets • None at all to relationships devoid of love, people who are and have always been unpleasant • Many of us are older people • Is it because most people here have faith?
- 9. Rhetoric • ‘We shall rise before the aged and honour the face of the elderly’ • Wisdom of older people • A lot of us here are elderly • You are all exceptional people
- 10. Tears and stories • Music: e.g. people dancing • Stories of creativity and communication constantly moving – ‘you have touched the strings of my heart’ • Lament
- 11. Reciprocity • Music • Churches gain as much as they give • Animations made by people with dementia and children in care
- 12. Continuity • Continuity of relationships in families and communities • Biography and identity
- 13. Change • Life in two halves • Rethinking dementia – e.g. time
- 14. Diversity • This is a very Christian gathering • Does it matter? • Would other religion’s views on spirituality and ageing be interesting? Would they be understandable? • Is it important to engage an increasingly secular society in this issue? • How?