Body, Mind and Spirit
This is the way that the World Health Organisation describes
what good health should encompass. Two
seminars I have attended recently have addressed issues around mental health
and palliative care which embrace these concepts.
A focus on the spiritual dimension in understanding
individuals and finding out where they can develop their coping strengths is an
essential element when we are considering how to retain connections and to
combat loneliness.
We need to listen, to see and hear the individual and have
the capacity for kindness. A Joseph
Rowntree report (13th December 2013 – A Better Life Programme)
highlights the fact that kindness is a critical quality and that other skills
can be taught. TLC might be thought as
old fashioned but emerges as a fundamental need
“if we don’t recruit, train and support intelligent kindness, we all
face a bleak future” (JRF Report 2013).
Voluntary Health Scotland has brought together a group to
consider mental health issues and the Scottish Government are currently
considering its ‘Palliative and End of Life Care Strategic Framework’; further information can be obtained from Http://www.nhsinform.co.uk/palliativecare/.
Maureen
O’Neill
June 2015
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