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 developmental disabilities such as Down syndrome. At the base of these chapters lies the fundamental concept and understanding of people in relationship. Notions ...
... 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 |
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 |