Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeElizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 févr. 2008 - 272 pages This 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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... blessings and curses with a stranger. Children, having managed adult relationships with their parents, find themselves in reversed roles mothering or fathering them. Sisters and brothers, after fiercely asserting their uniqueness, find ...
... blessed than the majority in the community. However, it is interesting in this context to note that the same standards were not applied to widows and orphans who very early became the first pastoral concern of the young Christian church ...
... blessing to have known such a gentle, kind and loving soul. He may never have uttered a single word to me but he taught me a really valuable life's lesson. He taught me how to just 'be' with another human being. Of course this says as ...
... Blessed are the poor in spirit, ...the gentle, ...those who mourn, ...who are persecuted, ...who hunger and thirst for what is right' (Matthew 5:1–12). In valuing these dimensions of human experience we are led beyond the notion of a ...
... blessing the book; in effect blessing all of the life of the person. The book may then be used in a variety of ways: it provides a resource for carers who may know little of the life story of the person; it can be used when speaking ...
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 |