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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To deny the reality of life and death on the basis of 'privacy' is to move outside any compassionate understanding within society. It is a common human tendency to fear things that are outside our experience; but there is something more ...
To deny the reality of life and death on the basis of 'privacy' is to move outside any compassionate understanding within society. It is a common human tendency to fear things that are outside our experience; but there is something more ...
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... exercising the virtue of hospitality understood as at-homeness with self and openness to the other entails considerable courage and commitment at a time in a person's life when much changes and the reality of one's death is near.
... exercising the virtue of hospitality understood as at-homeness with self and openness to the other entails considerable courage and commitment at a time in a person's life when much changes and the reality of one's death is near.
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As one council carer wrote after his death As a carer it was a privilege to take care of Len, as a friend it was a blessing to have known such a gentle, kind and loving soul. He may never have uttered a single word to me but he taught ...
As one council carer wrote after his death As a carer it was a privilege to take care of Len, as a friend it was a blessing to have known such a gentle, kind and loving soul. He may never have uttered a single word to me but he taught ...
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Eighteen months before his death my husband developed cancer and it was then that regular visitation and communion was re-instated. Communion days saw my husband more alert. He fought to stay awake, ...
Eighteen months before his death my husband developed cancer and it was then that regular visitation and communion was re-instated. Communion days saw my husband more alert. He fought to stay awake, ...
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... death. We are grateful if we are accorded a long and fruitful journey, though we grieve the passage itself as it brings increasing diminishment and often more than its share of pain. We might ask how much of the pain springs from ...
... death. We are grateful if we are accorded a long and fruitful journey, though we grieve the passage itself as it brings increasing diminishment and often more than its share of pain. We might ask how much of the pain springs from ...
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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 |
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Page 127 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 85 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 129 - Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies: Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!
Page 33 - Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Page 181 - Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.
Page 111 - Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me.
Page 181 - We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
Page 218 - Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Page 118 - May brighter, fairer be. 0 Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be.
Page 113 - So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life |
| Rédacteur | Elizabeth MacKinlay |
| Collaborateurs | Alan Niven, Christopher Newell, Lawrence McNamara, Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, Ruwan Palapathwala, Malcolm Goldsmith, Lorna Hallahan, Rosalie Hudson, John Swinton, Dagmar Ceramidas, Eileen Mary Glass, Matthew Anstey, Christine Bryden |
| Éditeur | Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1846427673, 9781846427671 |
| Longueur | 272 pages |
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