Aging

Intergenerational Learning in Friends Schools

Quakers believe in truth-seeking as a process of continuing revelation, seeing life as a journey of learning from one’s experiences…

Quaker Services and Quaker Values

Friends have made a substantial impact on the availability and quality of senior care in the United States. Friends senior…

Reviewing Our Lives

Accept with serenity the approach of each new stage of life. Welcome the approach of old age, both for oneself…

To Live Fully until Death: Lessons from the Dying

My Quakerism and my work for the past 25 years as a hospice nurse have informed and strengthened each other.…

Musings on Aging and Death

A recent illness has forced me not to deny the facts of my apparent mortality any longer. Culturally, through a…

Care of the Dying: A Spiritual Discipline

Attending the death of a loved one is a painful, sometimes disturbing experience. Frequently it has a deeply mysterious quality,…

How Can You Do That Work?

When I spent my professional life as a full-time emergency room nurse, my friends could not get enough of my…

Gifts from the Closet

It’s Saturday and I’ve managed to keep it open. I’m determined to clean out the closet in my spare room…

Sally's Care Committee

The punch line of a very long joke left us groaning: "transporting young gulls over sedated lions for immortal porpoises."…

You Are My Sunshine

You Are My Sunshine"—we belt it out every Thursday evening, along with "The Sidewalks of New York," "A Bicycle Built…

Spirituality and Old Age

The spiritual aspects of aging are wrapped up in the search that makes meaning out of life. There comes a…

On West

Mary is sitting in her usual corner. She just rocks herself in her chair and cries most of the day.…