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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... Elderly: The Potential for Choir Work to Reduce Depression and Meet Spiritual Needs Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, Hammond Care Group, Australia Humour and Its Link to Meaning and Spirituality in War Carmen Moran, University of New South ...
... elderly people to know about their friends must be honoured. 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 ...
... elderly people, using choir work, scriptural reminiscence and multifaith perspectives of ageing and pastoral care. The chapter on ritual challenges carers to become more aware of their own everyday rituals and examine ways of honouring ...
... elderly man who had been incontinent. So, I and a nursing assistant took this gentleman into the open, public toilet to change him. As we wrestled with him to get his trousers off, the smell of faeces almost overpowering us, other ...
... elderly lady suffering from dementia,paced the corridors of the nursing home restlessly – repeating over and over, just one word. The staff were disconcerted, but no one seemed quite sure how to calm her and put her mind at rest. In ...
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 |