Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later LifeElizabeth MacKinlay Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15. feb. 2008 - 272 sider 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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... individual and the faith community with the collective journey of faith recorded in Scripture. It is a practical means of affirming the worth and value of older people and assisting them towards further growth in their spiritual lives ...
... individuals were excellent, but the subtle shadow of warehousing and the not so subtle demands of caring for profit raised the awkward question of precisely what kind of commodity people with dementia were assumed to be. Why is it that ...
... individual achievement. It is a gift of community. Rather than conceiving of human beings as isolated, individual monads who in a sense both create and own their personhood, in Kitwood's perspective, community comes first; individuals ...
... individuals, unified by their common divinity, that is, by the possession by each of the whole divine essence. Within such a context love is directed towards human beings, but primarily and archetypically towards the other persons of ...
... individual who requires the offer (but not the imposition) of relationships that can affirm them in their personhood and in their relationship with God. This theological dynamic allows us in faith to grasp (sometimes with great ...
Innhold
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 |
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 |
269 | |
back cover | 273 |