In Next Avenue, Jeremiah Lideen, Director, Spirituality and Engagement at Lifespark, shares his opinion on whether spirituality has a place in health care.
Seniors in medical care face a battery of health questions, but too often the most consequential one goes unasked and unanswered: What does a good day look like for you today?
Doctors and nurses can get so focused on the technical to-do lists of medical work – the measurements, the tests, the drug regimens – that it can be hard to make time for the issues that matter most to the living human, namely, their happiness, peace, and contentment.
In health care settings, the body gets medical attention, but the mind and soul matter, too. In fact, sometimes the mind and soul matter most of all. As a spiritual care provider with 17 years and a chaplain in the Army National Guard and Air Force National Guard, he’s counseled hundreds of people in the final days of their lives.
