Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeThis 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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This provides a way of connecting the life journey of the individual and the faith community with the collective journey of faith recorded in Scripture. It is a practical means of affirming the worth and value of older people and ...
... by individuals were excellent, but the subtle shadow of warehousing and the not so subtle demands of caring for profit raised the awkward question of precisely what kind of commodity people with dementia were assumed to be.
Rather than conceiving of human beings as isolated, individual monads who in a sense both create and own their personhood ... community comes first; individuals emerge from and are shaped by the types of relationships that occur as they ...
Such a conception of God as Trinity suggests a divine, transcendent society or community of three fully personal and fully divine individuals, unified by their common divinity, that is, by the possession by each of the whole divine ...
... but is rather a narrative of a fragmented human person who is held and sustained in their uniqueness by a God who has promised never to abandon them (Romans 8:39); a unique individual who requires the offer (but not the imposition) ...
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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 |