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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... focus and interest. But now, further challenges arise as ageing adult children with intellectual disabilities and their own ageing parents struggle with the patterns of a lifetime, seeking to adjust to ageing together. The chapters of ...
... focus on the people with disabilities is further illuminated by Dagmar Ceramidas as she examines the interplay of faith and depression in older age. Kirstin Robertson-Gillam describes a recent study of people with dementia and the use ...
... focus on dementia, depression, stroke, other mental health conditions, and de- velopmental disabilities such as Down syndrome. At the base of these chapters lies the fundamental concept and understanding of people in relationship ...
... focus on disability results in missing the potentials for richness that can be found arising from living through the disabilities, even in the midst of pain. Perceptions. of. dementia. and. the. person. It is inevitable in a collection of ...
... focus of the healthy ageing agenda), a commodity or a piece of private property (over which we exercise choice in areas such as sexuality and relationships, abortion or euthanasia), or a battleground (on which we fight disease or ...
Table des matières
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A Narrative of Ageing Loss and Exclusion | 72 |
Buddhist Perspectives for a Theology of Pastoral Care for the Ageing and Persons with Disabilities | 145 |
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 |
Ethical and Theological Issues for Dementia Care | 81 |
Exploring Disability and Spirituality | 94 |
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 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 263 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 269 |
back cover | 273 |