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I have been reading a book called ‘The Spiritual Dimension of Ageing’ by Elizabeth MacKinlay, an Australian nurse and Anglican priest with a concern for older people’s wellbeing. Ten years ago she conducted a survey amongst 75 people over the age of 65 living independently, in an attempt to find out more about this hidden dimension of our lives. Some were religious, some not. MacKinlay started out with the assumption that as you get older you lose a lot of your active, working life but – as we have said in these articles – you are still you, and your