Meaningful Ageing Australia Information

Meaningful Ageing Australia uses current research to enable service providers to support the emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing of older people. We are a membership based not-for-profit, and the Australian leader in education and resourcing of holistic care in the context of ageing. Our work enables person-centred to come to life. Our mission is to provide leadership and evidence-informed resources enabling meaning, purpose and connectedness in the lives of older people. Membership is open to organisations and groups who provide support, care and/or accommodation to older people assessed as being in need of support. We translate contemporary understandings of spirituality and spiritual care into care contexts. Our key activities: - We create high quality, practical resources enabling best practice holistic care for older people. - We deliver engaging education services. - We provide information about the value of holitic care to all who need it so that older people in great need can be better cared for. About spirituality Spirituality is integral to, but not confined by, religion and faith. It is about what gives us a purpose to our lives. It is about our sources of meaning and hope, which in turn is intimately related to our connectedness to ourselves, to others and to the world. We therefore work with a wide range of organisations: faith-based and not faith-based, private sector and charitable. Spirituality is all about meaning, purpose and connectedness. There is now a large body of evidence showing that pastoral and spiritual care is an essential part of holistic care for everyone, particularly older people including, importantly, those with dementia.