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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... physical? What does it mean to be a person with disabilities? What does it mean to care for someone who has disabilities? How does spirituality assist people living with disabilities? What spiritual strengths can be drawn on by carers ...
... physical changes and decrements of later life. The disabilities of ageing challenge the model of successful ageing proposed by Rowe and Kahn (1997), defined as 'low probability of disease and disease-related disability, high cognitive ...
... physical struggle Newell has encountered over many years of living with long-term disability, it is the lack of human compassion that seems to strike at him most severely. For him, hisbeingas a person, a priest and disabled is central ...
... physical structure of the brain that causes the process of dementing. The second level is hypothetical. 'It is the highest level of mental functioning that is possible when a person's brain is in a particular structural state...the ...
... physical world, of the interactions with other people, and of their conception of themselves' (May 1986, p.50). This is the wisdom of wounded healers. It has something to say to ageing persons as they encounter the disabling effects of ...
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 |