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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... disability and life meaning. He suggests that a negative focus on disability results in missing the potentials for richness that can be found arising from living through the disabilities, even in the midst of pain. Perceptions. of.
... live life to the full, even in the presence of dementia. She has written out of her own experience of having dementia. She too writes of living with disability; in her struggle she finds that she is becoming more who she really is. Her ...
Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life Elizabeth MacKinlay. Chapter 5, by Eileen Glass, provides a wonderful and moving account of living with people who are profoundly disabled. Eileen draws on her long experience of living ...
... living in the present moment; it is all that seems to make sense to her now; the future is unknown, the past cannot be remembered with any certainty, or not at all. This time surely is God's time, not chronological time, perhaps 'the ...
... disabilities. In the chapters ahead, the theology of disability and ageing is considered, and issues of ethical living and disabilities and of perceptions of dementia and the person are examined. Barriers to well-being, such as fear ...
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 |