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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... Charles Sturt University, Australia 11 Remembering the Person: Theological Reflections on God, Personhood and Dementia John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, UK 22 Ethics, Ageing and Disability Laurence McNamara, Catholic Theological ...
The second chapter, by John Swinton, provides theological reflections on the concept of successful ageing, in the context of personhood and dementia. All that we do in working with older people who have disabilities is girded by ethics ...
'The significance and personhood of the person with dementia is safeguarded and sustained within the very being of God quite apart from the relationships a person may or may not encounter at a temporal level' (p.31).
... their own everyday rituals and examine ways of honouring rituals, especially at critical life points. CHAPTER 2 Remembering the Person: Theological Reflections on God, Personhood INTRODUCTION: AGEING, DISABILITY AND SPIRITUALITY / 21.
Personhood. and. Dementia. John. Swinton. Dementia is a difficult and painful condition. It is difficult and painful not simply because of the biological consequences of the deterioration of the brain and the relational consequences ...
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Table des matières
11 | |
22 | |
36 | |
Disabilities
Spirituality and Pastoral Responses | 45 |
A Perspective
from the Experience
of LArche | 57 |
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 |