Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeThis collection examines theological and ethical issues of ageing, disability and spirituality, with an emphasis on how ageing affects people who have mental health and developmental disabilities. |
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... author and advocate for people with Alzheimer's, and Elizabeth MacKinlay Bodhi, Karuna and Metta: Buddhist Perspectives for a Theology of Pastoral Care for the Ageing and Persons with Disabilities Ruwan Palapathwala, University of ...
In the literature, a number of types of dementia are described; the most commonly occurring is Alzheimer's disease, the second most common is vascular dementia and third, Lewy body dementia (Woods 2005). It is also possible that more ...
She too writes of living with disability; in her struggle she finds that she is becoming more who she really is. Her faith has sustained her on a journey of 12 years now, from diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's.
Labelling – mentally disabled, mentally handicapped, Down syndrome, dementia, Alzheimer's – places a person in a category of expected behaviours and capacities together with the expected and socially sanctioned repertoire of ways of ...
Iozzio, reflecting on her own family's experiences with her father, who had Alzheimer's disease, captures something of the deep loss that accompanies dementia for all concerned: Lovers, once intimately attuned ...
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Table des matières
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A Narrative of Ageing
Loss and Exclusion | 72 |
Ethical
and Theological Issues for
Dementia Care | 81 |
Exploring Disability
and Spirituality | 94 |
The Interplay of Faith
and Depression in Later Life | 163 |
The Potential for Choir Work
to Reduce Depression and
Meet Spiritual Needs | 182 |
Chapter
15
Humour and Its Link to Meaning
and Spirituality in War | 200 |
Chapter
16
Pastoral Rituals Ageing and
New Paths into Meaning | 217 |
The Possibilities for
Wellbeing and Care | 233 |
REFERENCES
| 240 |
CONTRIBUTORS
| 258 |
SUBJECT INDEX
| 263 |
Jacobs
Wrestling with the Unknown
Genesis 32 | 106 |
Addressing the Challenge of
Dementia in Later Life | 118 |
A Journey Inwards
to a Spiritual Self | 134 |
Buddhist Perspectives for a
Theology of Pastoral Care
for the Ageing and Persons
with Disabilities | 145 |
AUTHOR INDEX
| 269 |
back cover | 273 |