DEVELOPING A MODEL OF VOLUNTEER CHAPLAINCY AND PASTORAL CARE MINISTRIES TO NURSING HOME FACILITIES.
Contributors: Drew University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Religion, Clergy.
Description: This project is designed to bring a balanced program of pastoral care ministries to nursing home facilities. The program design makes available counseling and clergy skills through a volunteer chaplain or chaplains. It also makes available many other areas of pastoral care through the involvement of local church groups. These groups are organized by a steering committee to provide a balanced program of care to the residents according to needs.

Chapter I identifies the mission challenge nursing home facilities offer the church. The increasing number of elderly people in today's population provide an equally increasing number of elderly who will need institutionalized care. This chapter identifies the major health problems that cause these persons to need institutionalized care. Social and spiritual needs are likewise identified. Chapter II focuses on the biblical and theological foundations that challenge the church to such a caring ministry. The role and nature of the Servant People is explored as a theological basis for "call." Chapter III explores the planning process of the project. Existing programs are reviewed, the process for local participation is developed, the nursing facility that will provide the model is chosen, and a steering committee is selected. Chapter IV details the work of the Steering Committee as it develops the model through six meetings. Chapter V describes a three-month monitoring process of the model as the project is activated. Chapter VI reviews the evaluations made following the three-month monitoring process.

The project verifies the need for the variety of pastoral care ministries that are provided by volunteer chaplains and church groups administered by an organized program.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3780.

Thesis (D.MIN.)--DREW UNIVERSITY, 1986.

School code: 0064.