Based on presentations made at the Third International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality held in Adelaide in 2004.

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of religion, spirituality & aging, volume 18, numbers 2/3 and 4 2006."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ageing Health Care and the Spiritual Imperative: A View from Scotland / Harriet Mowat -- Continuity, Spiritual Growth, and Coping in Later Adulthood / Robert C. Atchley -- The Spirituality of Compassion: A Public Health Response to Ageing and End-of-Life Care / Bruce Rumbold -- Disembodied Souls or Soul-Less Bodies: Spirituality as Fragmentation / Rosalie Hudson -- Spiritual Care: Recognizing Spiritual Needs of Older Adults / Elizabeth MacKinlay -- Helping the Flame to Stay Bright: Celebrating the Spiritual in Dementia / John Killick -- "I am Just an Ordinary Person . . . " : Spiritual Reminiscence in Older People with Memory Loss / Corinne Trevitt, Elizabeth MacKinlay -- Who Is Afraid of Death? Religiousness, Spirituality, and Death Anxiety in Late Adulthood / Paul Wink -- The Pain of Dying / Michael Barbato -- Suffering--At the Bedside of the Dying / David Currow, Meg Hegarty -- Joy in the Midst of Suffering: Clowning as Care of the Spirit in Palliative Care / Jenny Thompson-Richards -- Ageing and Death: A Buddhist-Christian Conceptual Framework for Spirituality in Later Life / Ruwan Palapathwala -- The 'Connection' Health Care Providers Make with Dying Patients / Ann Harrington -- A Palliative Approach to Spirituality in Residential Aged Care / Linda Kristjanson -- Learning to be a Professional: Two Models of Competence and Related Learning Strategies / Laurie Grealish -- "Till Death Us Do Part": Issues of Fidelity in End of Life Care / Margaret O'Connor, Susan Lee.