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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... sense of time is contextual. It is one thing to say that time goes too quickly; it is another to know what today is – is it Friday? Does it matter? In dementia, and maybe even on holidays, labelling of time becomes less urgent, and the ...
... sense they had forgotten who and whose they were. Yet there was much that they still retained. They still laughed and cried, they still enjoyed the warmth of human contact, they were still, if you were prepared to listen and take the ...
... sense of the future, a sense of the past, the capacity to relate to others, concern for others, communication and curiosity' (Singer 1993, p.86). For current purposes it will be helpful to draw attention to two aspects of Singer's ...
... sense? That they are experiencing subjects, with cognitions, intentions, desires, emotions, there can be no doubt. In the dominant discourse, however, and in some of the subordinate discourses also, dementia sufferers are present ...
... sense both create and own their personhood, in Kitwood's perspective, community comes first; individuals emerge from and are shaped by the types of relationships that occur as they participate in some form of community. Something. more ...
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 |