Faith-based initiatives and aging services / F. Ellen Netting, James W. Ellor, editors.

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Separation of church and state: impact on faith-based services -- The role of religious congregations in the social service system -- Faith-related agencies and their implications for aging services -- Dialogue with Elizabeth Seale-Scott, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services -- Baptist perspectives on faith-based initiatives and religious liberty -- Managing older volunteers -- Faith organizations and ethnically diverse elders: a community action model -- The heritage of religion and spirituality in the field of gerontology: Don Clingan, Tom Cook, and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

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Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderlyReligious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have worked on behalf of older adults for centuries. But the initiation of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives has raised many questions from both the traditional secular and sectarian services as well as many nontraditional services found in each community. Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services addresses the issues of the separation of.

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