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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... disease and disease-related disability, high cognitive and physical functional capacity, and active engagement with life' (p.433). While this model is helpful to use in health promoting strategies for ageing, it sets those who live with ...
... disease first. 'The significance and personhood of the person with dementia is safeguarded and sustained within the very being of God quite apart from the relationships a person may or may not encounter at a temporal level' (p.31). This ...
... disease, the second most common is vascular dementia and third, Lewy body dementia (Woods 2005). It is also possible that more than one type of dementia can be present in the one person. Two views of dementia currently dominate the ...
... disease process. Woods (2005) states that it is increasingly clear from epidemiological studies where post-mortem examinations of brains of participants have been done that the dementia in those aged 75 years and older 'is less ...
... disease and adopting attitudes that watch for and appreciate the sacrament of the present moment. This time also involves mystery and suffering. Power and disempowerment McNamara notes that too often relationships are 18 / AGEING ...
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 |