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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... Swinton makes an important point about the centrality of relationships for human beings. We have the ability to bestow personhood on others, simply through the manner of our relationships with them. We may affirm them, or we may reject ...
... Swinton. Dementia is a difficult and painful condition. It is difficult and painful not simply because of the biological consequences of the deterioration of the brain and the relational consequences that this initiates, but also because ...
... (Swinton 2000a). Returning. to. the. question. of. personhood. Kitwood offers an alternative definition of personhood which challenges functional understandings in important ways. He defines personhood not in terms of functionality, but in ...
... (Swinton 2000b). There I made a case for human relationality to be viewed as analogous with Divine relationality; the inherently relational nature of human beings emerges from the nature and relational shape of the God in whose image ...
... (Swinton 2004). It has been well said by Stephen Post that 'clarity of mind and economic productivity determine the value of human life' (Post 2000). Any absence of these characteristics in the individual person places him or her ETHICS ...
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 |