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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... Healing and wholeness come as we are able, unselfconsciously, to connect with and accept other people, disabled or not, as our brothers and sisters. To live interdependently and in love, relating to the person not the disability, is the ...
... healer. McNamara sets out the importance of our understanding of ourselves as embodied persons as we provide care, and work with older people who have disabilities. McNamara and other authors in this book challenge the liberal societal ...
... healing perspectives on their situation. Thus whilst a person's situation may appear to be hopeless, in reality there always remains the possibility of 'something more'. None of this is intended to minimize the very real pain ...
... healer'. With him I have asked how wounds can become the source of healing (Nouwen 1972). Answering this question takes us into the mystery of Christian discipleship and how it engages the strengths and limits of our creaturely ...
... healing. In the third section it will then be possible to sketch elements of an ethic that is attentive to the woundedness and healing that characterize the lives of persons who are elderly or who live with a disability. Ageing. persons ...
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 |