Religious Programming for Nursing Home Residents


 

Publication Date: January 1995

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Rachel Filinson

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Social Services; Elderly; Outreach

Type: Report

Coverage: United States Rhode Island

Abstract:

After the only Jewish nursing home in Rhode Island closed in 1993, a program developed under the auspices of the Jewish Family Service to create a Jewish nursing home without walls for the Jewish residents of secular institutions. An external evaluation of this program found that there is considerable room for broadening religious involvement in the nursing home, although residents' demand for religious programming may be superseded by their interest in stimulation and interaction.