Olivia Luijnenburg is a Analysis Affiliate in King’s Faculty London’s NIHR Coverage Analysis Unit in Well being and Social Care Workforce. (460 phrases)
What’s ‘spirituality’ in care? How can care residence workers attend to residents’ religious wants? For my PhD challenge, I had the duty of discovering solutions to such questions. When desirous about spirituality and religious wants, many individuals’s minds instantly go to faith and spiritual wants. Nonetheless, what about care residence residents who don’t observe a faith or should not a part of a non secular neighborhood? We all know that religious wellbeing is discovered via a way of neighborhood, connection, nature, or the humanities, which might however doesn’t should be of a non secular nature. Surprisingly, the religious wants of older individuals in residential care have typically been missed.
To deal with the lack of understanding round spirituality in care and illuminate the intangibility of what religious wants may appear to be, I collected ‘artefacts’ from care residence residents earlier than speaking with them. These could possibly be an object, an area, a tune, an individual, or the rest that represented a way of pleasure, peace, security, or fond recollections for the individual. The ‘artefacts’ functioned as a dialog starter, in addition to a stimulant to the creativeness of what ‘spirituality’ may imply to the participant. They have been photographed and picked up in a ‘Gallery of Spiritualities’.
On the tenth of November, the ‘Gallery of Spiritualities’ was opened throughout the first Care Dwelling Analysis Discussion board at Nightingale Hammerson Care Dwelling. Twelve images, accompanied by snippets of interviews to set the photographs in context have been displayed in the back of the house’s convention room. One instance is proven beneath. This can be a slightly totally different manner of presenting analysis findings, however I hope that it helps individuals to consider the topic. Fairly than describing spirituality or religious care in phrases, images are one solution to grasp attainable meanings.
For instance, after the Care Dwelling Analysis Discussion board, somebody advised me how one of many photos and caption had touched him. His mom lives overseas and it made him marvel if he known as her typically sufficient. Others commented on how the photographs replicate what residents have of their rooms within the care residence. The ‘Gallery of Spiritualities’ presents a glance into the lives of care residence residents and an perception into their attainable religious wants.
Artefact Milly, 89. Photograph e-book of recollections (Click on picture to enlarge)
Milly: “I had twenty albums of images… which I knew I couldn’t convey with me. So, I picked out those that meant one thing to me, household… Not holidays, not surroundings, however… household and mates. And… this implies quite a bit to me. Ehm… from my father as a child, to my kids, my grandchildren. And which means one thing to me, sure.”
The Gallery is at present solely seen for Nightingale Hammerson workers and residents.
Olivia Luijnenburg is a Analysis Affiliate in King’s Faculty London’s NIHR Coverage Analysis Unit in Well being and Social Care Workforce.
