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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... notes that friendship moves beyond ideas of ability or disability to 'enrich and enliven lives' (see Chapter 3, p.38). Newell (Chapter 6) underlines the significance of relationship when he 12 / AGEING, DISABILITY AND SPIRITUALITY.
... significance of relationship when he writes out of his own experiences of disability, asking whether it is 'better to be dead than disabled'. Apart from the obvious physical struggle Newell has encountered over many years of living with ...
... significance and personhood of the person with dementia is safeguarded and sustained within the very being of God quite apart from the relationships a person may or may not encounter at a temporal level' (p.31). This statement forms a ...
... significant persons in need of care, love, recognition and sometimes protection. And yet, as I began to spend time with people with dementia and talk to carers, it was clear that the ways in which services were set up, the lack of time ...
... significant negative impact on people experiencing dementia. However, as Kitwood points out, 'this error is made ... significance of the natural interconnectivity of body, mind and soul for recovery and quality of life. This perspective ...
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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 |
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back cover | 273 |