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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... important topics for this book. The perspective is a spiritual one, and the questions examined include: What does it mean to live with disabilities, mental and/or physical? What does it mean to be a person with disabilities? What does ...
... . Alan Niven provides an important chapter that offers a way of understanding the role of ritual in pastoral care. CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Ageing, Disability and Spirituality Elizabeth MacKinlay It 10 / AGEING, DISABILITY AND SPIRITUALITY.
... important point about the centrality of relationships for 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 ...
... important starting points for this book and its overarching theme of ageing, disability and spirituality. Further ethical perspectives are powerfully presented by Newell (in Chapter 6) as he struggles with his own ageing disabilities ...
... important grounding for care of those with dementia, or indeed any type of later life disability. How easy it is to see only as far as the disability, and thus fail to see the person. In Chapter 11, Christine Bryden writes as a ...
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 |