A word from the editor: researching religion, spirituality and aging

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Notes

1. Barbara Pittard Payne, Stensel was a faculty member at Georgia State University. She was married 3 times, so you will find a spiritual assessment scale under the name of the Pittard Scale, much of her work was with the name Payne, but near the end of her life some of her work uses all 3 names. She was an amazing person, but all three of these names are the same person.

2. In the late 1990’s, Jim Ellor and Mel Kimble had a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation in part to study the history of the Religion and Aging movement. Together we went around the country to interview all the key figures in the field with the help if Jim Seeber, obtaining both their insights and their historical documentation for all of the discussion above. See, Ellor, J. W. & Melvin A. Kimble (2004). The heritage of religion and spirituality in the field of gerontology: Don Clingan, Tom Cook, and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging. Journal of Religious Gerontology, 16(1/2).