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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Eileen Glass takes up the theme of developmental disabilities as she writes of experiences of ageing both for people with intellectual disabilities and for their carers within L'Arche communities. Christopher Newell challenges ...
Eileen draws on her long experience of living in L'Arche communities and she demonstrates the central place of community and connectedness that make these communities so special. She writes: 'In many ways people with an intellectual ...
Disabled persons challenge church communities today in two ways. Jean Vanier, when he speaks out of the rich experience of living in a L'Arche community, emphasizes the central place that human fulfilment has for the individual.
I then outline the spirituality of L'Arche which underpins the principles and values on which L'Arche communities have based the development of support for people as they age and die. Throughout, I draw on examples from communities in ...
L'Arche. The first community of L'Arche was founded in France in 1964. Our founder, Jean Vanier, had met people with ... need for support posed a question and a challenge to societies where strength and independence are dominant values.
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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 |