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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But now, further challenges arise as ageing adult children with intellectual disabilities and their own ageing parents struggle with the patterns of a lifetime, seeking to adjust to ageing together. The chapters of this book are ...
Apart from the obvious 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, ...
Further ethical perspectives are powerfully presented by Newell (in Chapter 6) as he struggles with his own ageing disabilities, being a priest and ministering within a church that seems to have at least some difficulties in accepting ...
She too writes of living with disability; in her struggle she finds that she is becoming more who she really is. Her faith has sustained her on a journey of 12 years now, from diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's.
... what kind of commodity people with dementia were assumed to be. Why is it that we seem to struggle to remember and hold on to the personhood of people with dementia and to provide models of care and support that reflect this?
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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 |