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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... Care Rosalie Hudson, University of Melbourne, Australia 81 On Relationships Not Things: Exploring Disability and Spirituality Lorna Hallahan, Flinders University, Australia 94 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Contents.
... explored the use of humour by older veterans in reminiscences of their time at war in the Second World War. She found less use of humour than she had expected; however, she did find instances of the spiritual dimension in her study ...
... explore some aspects of this complex cultural milieu and how it impacts upon the ways in which people with dementia are perceived, understood and treated. In so doing I will challenge conventional understandings of personhood and begin ...
... exploring level one (i.e. the purely biological level). Indeed, to attempt to do so is a serious error which can have ... explore ways in which the person's brain functioning may be enhanced or diminished through non-neurological ...
... three perspectives. In the first section I shall briefly explore the role that ageing persons fulfil as a community of wounded healers. In the second I shall consider disabled people 36 Chapter 3 Ethics, Ageing and Disability.
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 |