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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... resonances of lives lived well. The longer I worked with people whose life experience included dementia, the more I realized that the act of forgetting may not THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON GOD, PERSONHOOD AND DEMENTIA / 23.
... personhood of people experiencing dementia. Some of the structures had certainly changed and some of the practices carried out by individuals were excellent, but the subtle shadow of warehousing and the not so subtle demands of caring ...
... personhood. We have already looked at the way in which cultural assumptions relating to the criteria for meaningful personhood can be highly problematic for people with dementia. A key question thrown up by liberal society is whether the ...
... 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 terms of relationship: '[personhood] is a ...
... personhood that are based primarily on autonomy, self-determination and cognitive capacities, towards a perspective which offers a strong place for the significance of relationships, emotions, feelings and non-cognitive experiences. A ...
Table des matières
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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 |