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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... possible and achievable for many older people notwithstanding their disabilities. What is required is a willingness to look outside the disabilities, to see these people, not assessed according to various scales that would label them as ...
... possible in the long-term small group spiritual reminiscence research (MacKinlay and Trevitt 2006). Swinton takes Kitwood's construct one step further as he asks what the status is of the person who has no human relationships. His ...
... possible a sharing of lives with one another that enables us to go on in the face of the inexplicable' (Hauerwas 2004a, p.16). McNamara (in Chapter 3) gives emphasis to human bodiliness and our responses to each other as wounded healers ...
... possible when people are able to openly dialogue about what it means to have dementia. She has been empowered to live life to the full, even in the presence of dementia. She has written out of her own experience of having dementia. She ...
... through use of symbols and ritual. Hope is made possible through finding one's true identity, being able to transcend seemingly insurmountable challenges, and rest in the strength that INTRODUCTION: AGEING, DISABILITY AND SPIRITUALITY / 17.
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 |