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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Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life Elizabeth MacKinlay ... with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Carers: A Perspective from the Experience of L'Arche Eileen Glass, L'Arche, Australia 57 Better Dead than Disabled?
Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life Elizabeth MacKinlay ... Emphasis was given to mental health disabilities common in later life, developmental disabilities and the psychosocial and spiritual effects on the person and ...
Eileen Glass takes up the theme of developmental disabilities as she writes of experiences of ageing both for people with intellectual disabilities and for their carers within L'Arche communities. Christopher Newell challenges ...
David Coulter, in his foreword to the collection of essays titledCritical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability (Swinton 2004), notes that as a physician working with children having profound intellectual disabilities ...
She writes: 'In many ways people with an intellectual disability represent the human heart unmasked and they can startle us with their directness, their transparency and their deep compassion' (p.59). Glass asks questions of the ...
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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 |