Donald Koepke – Caregiving Articles

Author: Donald Koepke

Donald Koepke is the Director of the Center for Spirituality and Ethics in Aging at the California Lutheran Homes, Anaheim, California. Rev. Koepke earned his Master of Divinity from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and completed a year-long residency in Clinical Pastoral Care at the UCLA Medical Center in 1995. He also earned a Certificate in Gerontology at the Geriatric Pastoral Care Institute at the Center for Aging, Religion and Spirituality, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rev. Koepke is a member of the American Society on Aging, Forum on Spirituality and Religion, and serves on the Forum's Governing Council as well as the National Council on Aging's National Interfaith Coalition on Aging, serving as secretary to its Delegate Council. He is a Clinical Member of the Association of Clinical Pastoral Educators, a Board Certified Member of the Association of Professional Chaplains and endorsed by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for Specialized Ministry.

He has conducted numerous professional workshops at national and regional conventions of aging, service providers to the elderly, caregivers, churches and other faith communities, families and older adults specializing in spirituality and aging.

The Spiritual Gift of Caregiving

By Donald Koepke

The author addresses the issues of a carerecipient’s vulnerability when someone is caring for them.