This book offers its readers a practical guide for Christians to apply their faith and reach out to individuals in their senior years. The author is a psychiatrist and a retired clergyman. His wife believes that every believer has a gift to share. This highly readable work gives us material from God's Word and the medical community to offer insights into spiritual growth and human behavior. It calls us to re-think the concept of retirement by asking the question: "Can followers of Christ ever retire?" The authors discuss using talents and state: "We believe that every person at every age, in every circumstance, has a unique talent, ability, or gift that at least partly explains why he or she is in that situation." They list fifty different talents that individuals in their senior years can apply in serving God. Questions are asked at the end of each of the twelve chapters, which makes this work excellent for study groups or Sunday school classes.
This is a good, practical book that helps adult children and their parents face the process of growing older together with candor, dignity, and grace. Older adults face many post-retirement adjustments and changes; and their adult children want to be supportive, but sometimes are not sure how best to help. Fowler explores these changes and the emotions that accompany them through research, interviews, commentary and scriptural insights. The author looks at both the perspective of the aging parent as well as that of the adult child and helps bring clarity and practical insights to everyone involved.
Win and Charles Arn help local churches move into uncharted territory. They discuss specific ways churches can establish ministries to reach the diverse needs of senior adults. Outdated assumptions about senior adult ministry are peeled away, layer by layer. A new appreciation for this age group is purposefully developed along with practical program ideas. This is an updated revision of a previous book (1993) by the same title. This is a must read.
Heritage Builders Family Traditions
By J. Ottis Ledbetter and Tim Smith
Chariot Victor Publishing
Practical intentional ways to strengthen your family identity. Family traditions are an exciting way to bless your children and begin the pattern of blessing future generations as well. Included are over 80 traditions to try with your family.
This is a well researched, comprehensive, and very practical resource that gives enormous assistance to adult children and caregivers, as they care for elderly parents or friends. The book shares a wealth of information on a wide range of medical, health, psychological, emotional, financial, legal and social needs that caregivers face, as they seek to provide the very best care that they can for today's elderly. This is a very thorough and complete guide book that addresses many of the questions and concerns of both the care-receiver and the care-giver. The author provides compassionate reassurance, concrete help, practical options and suggestions, local services, a variety of resources and tremendous support for the caregiver. Morris also includes brief quotes and vignettes that speak to the heart of the caregiver, helping them to see some of the unexpected rewards of caregiving. Truly a wonderful guide and resource.
Woodrow Kroll points out that every 17 seconds another individual in America turns fifty, and these midlifers are facing problems that become more complex each year. Many are sandwiched between caring for nearly grown children and providing assistance to aging parents. This book also deals with the vital issue of Alzheimer's disease -- its symptoms and treatments, as well as how to care for family members who have it.
Senior Adult Ministry in the 21st Century By Dr. David P. Gallagher
Group Publishing
Step by step strategies for reaching people over 50. In this resource, pastor to senior adults, Dr. David Gallagher offers invaluable insights, practical ideas and successful strategies for ministering effectively to people over 50.
The Complete Guide to Caring for Aging Loved Ones Focus on the Family Series
When you’re the caregiver, here is a lifeline. This complete guide will help you find quality medical, professional, and social services; deal with common health problems; make wise decisions regarding legal issues, finances and insurance; avoid burnout; encourage and support your elder’s faith and much more!
The Gift of Grandparenting By Eric Wiggen
Focus on the Family series
By Otis Ledbetter and Kurt Bruner
Chariot Victor Publishing
How to be intentional about the legacy you leave. At last a plan to ensure that the heritage you pass along to your children is the meaningful, spiritually rich, loving, life-equipping, memory-building legacy you want it to be.
Unlimited Partnership – Bill Wellons and Lloyd Reeb Two books in one - the flip book concept - makes this unusually helpful book to the local church pastor and the local church leader. Wellons founder of men's Fraternity and pastor knows new retirement age adults and how they must be plugged into meaningful ministry in the local church. Reeb an author, entrepreneur and popular Halftime Speaker, explores how retirement age adults are the "new movement" in our society and church. Great read for the pastor and a great read for the lay worker who is looking into meaningful ministry especially for early retirement age adults.
