How can I keep serving?

Imagine going round a stately home and seeing an old-fashioned mangle in the kitchen. Many of us have done that at one time or another and we’ve explained to our children what they were for and we’ve been glad we no longer have to use one! But how often as we get older, do we…

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Do I Still Have Value?

If you hear the phrase, ‘because you’re worth it!’ you probably think immediately of the well-known adverts which have the idea of ‘worth’ as the key message and the reason that you must buy the product. The idea of using ‘worth’ as a selling point is a clever one because it plays on our need…

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What hotel quarantine taught me about my faith

Ben Boland is an aged care chaplain and author based in Australia and is a Faith in Later Life Church Champion. He recently spent time working in an aged care facility dealing with Covid19, while self-isolating in a hotel. Here he reflects his experiences:   No balcony, no microwave and no breeze. The only face-to-face…

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Social Work Leader appointed as first Ambassador

Press Release from Faith in Later Life: Social Work Leader appointed as first Ambassador  Faith in Later Life are delighted to announce that the founding Director of the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work and Professional practice, Professor Keith Brown, has been appointed as its first Ambassador. Keith has been working alongside Faith in Later Life for a year, supporting their…

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Navigating through a Covid Christmas

Old man sitting on bench

  Did you know that 5,800,000 older people say that the television or their pet is their main form of company? 5.8 million people. And that was before the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic. As we are currently in enhanced lockdown restrictions, and eight months since a first full lockdown, Covid19 has affected people…

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Hidden treasures of ‘lockdown’.

    “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures: He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Psalm 23: 1-3 (ESV)   Welcome to our ‘Faith in Later Life’ August newsletter, and thank…

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