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Ageing, disability, and spirituality : addressing the challenge of disability in later life / edited by Elizabeth MacKinlay.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.Description: 271 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781843105848 (pb : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Aging, disability, and spirituality
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 248.85/AGE
Contents:
Introduction: ageing, disability and spirituality / Elizabeth MacKinlay -- Remembering the person: theological reflections on God, personhood and dementia / John Swinton -- Ethics, ageing and disability / Laurence McNamara -- New and old challenges of ageing: disabilities, spirituality and pastoral responses / Elizabeth MacKinlay -- The particular needs of older people with intellectual disabilities and their carers: a perspective from the experience of L'Arche / Eileen Glass -- Better dead than disabled? when ethics and disability meet: a narrative of ageing, loss and exclusion / Christopher Newell -- Disabled or enabled: ethical and theological issues for dementia care / Rosalie Hudson -- On relationships not things: exploring disability and spirituality / Lorna Hallahan -- Scriptural reminiscence and narrative gerontology: Jacob's wrestling with the unknown (Genesis 32) / Matthew Anstey -- Tracing rainbows through the rain: addressing the challenge of dementia in later life / Malcolm Goldsmith -- Dementia: a journey inwards to a spiritual self / Christine Bryden and Elizabeth MacKinlay -- Bodhi, Karuna and Metta: Buddhist perspectives for a theology of pastoral care for the ageing and persons with disabilities / Ruwan Palapathwala -- "Who is God in the pit of ashes?" the interplay of faith and depression in older age / Dagmar Ceramidas -- Hearing the voice of the elderly: the potential for choir work to reduce depression and meet spiritual needs. a pilot study / Kirstin Robertson-Gillam -- Humour and its link to meaning and spirituality in war / Carmen Moran -- Pastoral rituals, ageing and new paths into meaning / Alan Niven -- Ageing, disability and spirituality: the possibilities for well-being and care / Elizabeth MacKinlay.
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Book The Emmaus Library Open Shelves 248 Christian Life 248.85 AGE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 17405
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: ageing, disability and spirituality / Elizabeth MacKinlay -- Remembering the person: theological reflections on God, personhood and dementia / John Swinton -- Ethics, ageing and disability / Laurence McNamara -- New and old challenges of ageing: disabilities, spirituality and pastoral responses / Elizabeth MacKinlay -- The particular needs of older people with intellectual disabilities and their carers: a perspective from the experience of L'Arche / Eileen Glass -- Better dead than disabled? when ethics and disability meet: a narrative of ageing, loss and exclusion / Christopher Newell -- Disabled or enabled: ethical and theological issues for dementia care / Rosalie Hudson -- On relationships not things: exploring disability and spirituality / Lorna Hallahan -- Scriptural reminiscence and narrative gerontology: Jacob's wrestling with the unknown (Genesis 32) / Matthew Anstey -- Tracing rainbows through the rain: addressing the challenge of dementia in later life / Malcolm Goldsmith -- Dementia: a journey inwards to a spiritual self / Christine Bryden and Elizabeth MacKinlay -- Bodhi, Karuna and Metta: Buddhist perspectives for a theology of pastoral care for the ageing and persons with disabilities / Ruwan Palapathwala -- "Who is God in the pit of ashes?" the interplay of faith and depression in older age / Dagmar Ceramidas -- Hearing the voice of the elderly: the potential for choir work to reduce depression and meet spiritual needs. a pilot study / Kirstin Robertson-Gillam -- Humour and its link to meaning and spirituality in war / Carmen Moran -- Pastoral rituals, ageing and new paths into meaning / Alan Niven -- Ageing, disability and spirituality: the possibilities for well-being and care / Elizabeth MacKinlay.

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