led by Anne Felton

This course offers hard-to find guidance about the spirituality of ageing and dementia. It caters for those navigating older age, who can learn from, reflect, and share about, their experience of later-life spirituality. The course is also suited to younger people and to those caring for older people, who will gain insight into the life journeys of family, friends and those being cared for as they get older.

There are few opportunities to tell one’s life story to attentive listeners, including our own ageing selves. Telling one’s stories is an important part of older age, helping to counteract the negative messages that society holds about growing older. Telling one’s stories is a spiritual task of older age. It’s a proven way of combating loneliness and disconnection.

Anne Felton has been a Quaker since 1991, attending Meetings in Sydney, Canberra and Honolulu. She currently worships in person with Bega Valley Recognised Meeting, and online with Canberra Quakers and Silver Wattle Quaker Centre.

Anne is a qualified Spiritual Director and has been closely involved with Silver Wattle Quaker Centre from 2010, serving in a variety of roles over the years and co-leading the course “Listening to the Landscape” in 2019, 2022 and 2024.

Anne’s husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2008, and she later wrote about her caregiving experience in Pendle Hill Pamphlet #477 “One Caregiver’s Journey with Dementia” (2022).