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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... meaning. Is it really important that we know what day it is? Much of our knowledge and 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 ...
... meanings within liberal culture. Personhood is defined precisely by those aspects of experience that people with dementia lose as their condition progresses. From the outset then it is important to recognize that dementia is a cultural ...
... meaning that the experience disability has in the lives of persons living with a disability (French and Swain 2002). Disabled persons challenge church communities today in two ways. Jean ETHICS, AGEING AND DISABILITY / 41.
... meaning, stems from the dignity, unity and equality of all people' (Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2005, n.164). The common good is understood as 'the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as ...
... meaning. The third component of the model is the move from provisional life meanings, to finding final meanings. Vulnerability which increases with disability and ageing presents a fourth task of the model that is identified as the ...
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 |