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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... Disabilities, Spirituality and Pastoral Responses Elizabeth MacKinlay 45 The Particular Needs of Older People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Carers: A Perspective from the Experience of L'Arche Eileen Glass, L'Arche, Australia ...
... mental health issues in later life. Dementia, in particular, and depression have gained higher focus and interest. But now, further challenges arise as ageing adult children with intellectual disabilities and their own ageing parents ...
... disabilities, who are also ageing. The importance of pastoral response is highlighted. Eileen Glass takes up the theme of developmental disabilities as she writes of experiences of ageing both for people with intellectual disabilities ...
... Disability (Swinton 2004), notes that as a physician working with children having profound intellectual disabilities he came to realize that what he and they were sharing was their spirituality. That, he saw, 'did not depend on age ...
... 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 fundamental basis for our humanity. She asks ...
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 |