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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... social and occupational functioning. Importantly, the decline must represent a decline from a previously higher level of functioning. (French 1995) And of course dementia is indeed a narrative of profound loss both for sufferers and for ...
... social history of dementia and the negative consequences that occur when either one is given priority over the other. Due to the power of the medical interpretation of dementia (the natural history), the person behind the diagnostic ...
... social, relational and spiritual environment, a degree of rementing can take place in people with dementia. In particular, Sixmith and colleagues (Sixsmith, Stilwell and Copeland 1993) in a study of 'homely homes' where the care was of ...
... social, formed in self/other relationships. In like manner to the suggestion that Christ can only be understood as Christ-in-community, so also human beings can only be understood as they relate with one another and with God. The human ...
... social life by example that is virtuous. William F. May observes that [s]ome common human virtues – which men and women of all ages might do well to cultivate – simply take special form in the later years. When they do appear in the ...
Table des matières
11 | |
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 |