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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... recognize the centrality of friendship. He sees the gift of self to another in friendship as being of far more value than attaining autonomous existence. McNamara notes that friendship moves beyond ideas of ability or disability to ...
... recognizing personal identity, and in this case, the story of Jacob is presented as a way into disability and the faith story. A multicultural and multifaith perspective on ageing, disability and pastoral INTRODUCTION: AGEING ...
... recognize that dementia is a cultural as well as a biomedical illness. In this chapter I want to explore some aspects of this complex cultural milieu and how it impacts upon the ways in which people with dementia are perceived ...
... recognize as persons and who are deprived of the opportunity to attain meaningful personal relationships (the outcast, the lonely, the forgotten, the hermit, those who have forgotten who they are relating to)? Do they cease to be ...
... recognizing his relatedness to and desire to relate to human beings. 'Christ can be thought of only in relational terms. “Being-there-with-and-for-us” is the manner of his existence and presence... Christ exists “as community ...
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 |