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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... Australia Humour and Its Link to Meaning and Spirituality in War Carmen Moran, University of New South Wales, Australia Pastoral Rituals, Ageing and New Paths into Meaning Alan Niven, Churches of Christ Theological College, ...
Kirstin Robertson-Gillam describes a recent study of people with dementia and the use of choir work, while Carmen Moran explores humour and its links to meaning and spirituality among a number of veterans of the Second World War.
She writes of disabilities and spirituality, introducing a Celtic concept of the 'thin places', meaning a place of connecting with the 'holy other' or the deeper things of life. She sees these places as being where the marginalized live ...
Newell's chapter is set in a narrative of disability and life meaning. He suggests that a negative focus on disability results in missing the potentials for richness that can be found arising from living through the disabilities, ...
This model examines disability and ageing through people's needs for connectedness, search for meaning in the face of disability, of finding identity through story, through use of symbols and ritual. Hope is made possible through ...
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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 |