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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... human dignity, regardless of any disability; concluding that with this as the starting point, no one has to prove their worth as persons. Reinders set out two perspectives on disabilities that he identified as attitudes towards people ...
... human compassion that seems to strike at him most severely. For him, hisbeingas a person, a priest and disabled is central to his identity. He challenges the church and its attitudes towards and care for those who are disabled. One of ...
... human beings. We have the ability to bestow personhood on others, simply through the manner of our relationships with them. We may affirm them, or we may reject them, labelling people with dementia as being 'non-persons'. Should we ...
... human bodiliness and our responses to each other as wounded healers, drawing on Nouwan's concept of the wounded healer. McNamara sets out the importance of our understanding of ourselves as embodied persons as we provide care, and work ...
... human heart unmasked and they can startle us with their directness, their transparency and their deep compassion' (p.59). Glass asks questions of the fundamental basis for our humanity. She asks challenging questions of each of us. What ...
Table des matières
11 | |
22 | |
36 | |
Disabilities
Spirituality and Pastoral Responses | 45 |
A Perspective
from the Experience
of LArche | 57 |
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 |