The Role of the Rabbi in an Orthodox Long-Term Geriatric Hospital


 

Publication Date: June 1975

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Louis J. Novick

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Elderly; Jewish Law (Halacha); Rabbinic Counseling

Type: Report

Coverage: Canada

Abstract:

The author describes how the rabbi serves the needs of patients in the Maimonides Hospital and Home for the Aged in Montreal, an Orthodox facility. The rabbi's duties include as much interactions with staff as with patients, the author explains, in order to work with the staff to help the patients to participate as fully as possible in traditional religious life, in compliance with laws of prayer, Sabbath observance and other activities.