Care of the Aged, Women's Health, and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health

Lindsay B Carey; David Drummond; Harold G Koenig; Ezra Gabbay; Terrence Hill; Jeffery Cohen; Carl Aiken; Jacinda R Carey

doi:10.1007/s10943-023-01914-4

Care of the Aged, Women's Health, and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health

J Relig Health. 2023 Oct;62(5):3001-3005. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01914-4. Epub 2023 Sep 19.

Authors

Lindsay B Carey^{1

2}, David Drummond³, Harold G Koenig^{4

5}, Ezra Gabbay⁶, Terrence Hill⁷, Jeffery Cohen⁸, Carl Aiken^{9

10}, Jacinda R Carey^{11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
² The University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
³ McKellar Centre, Barwon Health, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Section, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁸ The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁹ School of Medicine (Sydney), University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia.
¹⁰ St Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹ Emeritus Chaplain, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.
¹² Alumni, Drew University, Madison, USA.

PMID: 37725267
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-023-01914-4

Abstract

This issue of JORH explores various concerns related to the care of the elderly within a number of countries (namely China, India, Iran, Israel, Turkey, USA). Issues relating to Women's Health are also considered across the life span but particularly with regard to gynaecology, paediatrics, cancer, mental health and wellbeing. Research is presented on the empirical measurement of religion, spirituality and health with scales developed and/or tested in Iran, India, Haiti, Taiwan, Jordan and the Netherlands. Finally, readers are reminded of the 9th European Congress on Religion, Spirituality and Health (ECRSH) during May 2024, 16-18th at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria.

Keywords: Elderly; Health; Measurement; Religion; Spirituality; Women.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Aged
Austria
Child
China
Female
Humans
Spiritual Therapies*
Spirituality*
Women's Health