COVID-19, Aged Care, Cancer, Medical Research and Mental Health
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COVID‑19, Aged Care, Cancer, Medical Research and Mental Health Lindsay B. Carey1 Accepted: 29 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Introduction and Milestones This last issue for 2020 of the Journal of Religion and Health (JORH 2020a) recognizes a number of milestones relating to: COVID-19, aged care, cancer, various medical research, mental health, and the JORH Editorial. The first milestone I wish to mention is with regard to Reverend Curtis Hart retiring as JORH Editor-in-Chief. The last 10 years of JORH under Curt’s editorship have been extraordinary. For those of us who are loyal JORH readers and, even more so, for those of us who are producers of research and script, Curt became (perhaps unwittingly) an invaluable mentor for many around the world (including myself) by encouraging research and discussion concerning the correlation between religion and health. Subsequently, this assisted the growth of these two interdisciplinary areas and the rise of JORH as a valuable and resourceful medium for academics and clinicians. We warmly and wholeheartedly thank Curtis Hart for his dedication and distinguished service to JORH and the international community.
COVID‑19 Another milestone noted with this JORH issue is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the pastoral responses to its deathly results around the globe. JORH led the way with a special section on COVID-19 (JORH 2020b), providing resources to inform, educate, and support international communities (Hart and Koenig 2020). Similar journals also followed suit with a special issue in response to the pandemic (e.g., Carey et al 2020), whereas other journals to date have only provided editorial commentary (e.g., Bard 2020). Some journals have not even addressed the issue—perhaps believing COVID-19 would be of little significance! In this issue, JORH proves its flexibility and currency by including additional articles addressing COVID-19 * Lindsay B. Carey [email protected] 1
Palliative Care Unit, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
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as a follow-on to the previously published special edition on COVID-19 (JORH 2020b). The first of these articles considers religion and faith perceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, then subsequently religious clichés and stigma as a result of COVID-19, Jewish ethical justifications for medical quarantine, as well as a personal reflection offering hope during COVID-19. Future, JORH issues will contain other articles concerning COVID-19.
Aged Care An additional milestone, noted by Goldin and Muggah (2020) within their global epidemiological text “Terra Incognita,” is that, for the first time in history, this decade marks the turning point when “the over-sixty set are among the fastest-growing age group in the world” (p. 372). Further to this, they provide evidence indicating that “the number of people aged sixty and over will more than double in the next three decades from roughly 926
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