Back to search results

Ageing, disability, and spirituality [electronic resource]

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Book

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. The book presents ways of moving towards more effective relationships between carers and older people with disabilities; ways in which to connect compassionately and beneficially with the person's spiritual dimension. The contributors highlight the importance of recognizing the personhood of all people regardless of age and of disability, whatever form it takes. They identify factors inherent in pers

Title Ageing, disability, and spirituality [electronic resource] : addressing the challenge of disability in later life / edited by Elizabeth MacKinlay.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Creation Date 2008
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content front cover
Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ageing, Disability and Spirituality
Chapter 2 Remembering the Person: Theological Reflections on God, Personhood and Dementia
Chapter 3 Ethics, Ageing and Disability
Chapter 4 New and Old Challenges of Ageing: Disabilities, Spirituality and Pastoral Responses
Chapter 5 The Particular Needs of Older People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Carers: A Perspective from the Experience of L'Arche
Chapter 6 Better Dead than Disabled? When Ethics and Disability Meet: A Narrative of Ageing, Loss and ExclusionChapter 7 Disabled or Enabled: Ethical and Theological Issues for Dementia Care
Chapter 8 On Relationships Not Things: Exploring Disability and Spirituality
Chapter 9 Scriptural Reminiscence and Narrative Gerontology: Jacob's Wrestling with the Unknown (Genesis 32)
Chapter 10 Tracing Rainbows through the Rain: Addressing the
Extent 1 online resource (275 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715225305171
MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

More on this subject

Faith and well-being in later life [electronic resource] : linking theories with evidence in an interdisciplinary inquiry / Amy L. Ai and Monika Ardelt, editors.
Book
Aging and spirituality : spiritual dimensions of aging theory, research, practice, and policy / David O. Moberg, editor.
Book
Aging, spirituality and pastoral care : a multi-national perspective / Elizabeth MacKinlay, James W. Ellor, Stephen Pickard, editors.
Book
The spiritual dimension of ageing [electronic resource] / Elizabeth MacKinlay.
Book

This may also interest you

Franz Kafka on His Deathbed

Franz Kafka on His Deathbed

In the early 20th century, tuberculosis was a fairly common disease. At that point in time, an effective treatment had yet to be developed. The disease mainly spread among populations that suffered from nutritional deficiencies. War could often lead to significant parts of the population suffering

To the article on our blog
Space Left Behind: Ilan Ramon’s Diary Has Arrived

Space Left Behind: Ilan Ramon’s Diary Has Arrived

Ground Control: “And Columbia, Houston, we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last…” Commander Rick Husband: “Roger buh…” That utterance by mission commander Rick Husband was the last communication sent to Ground Control in Houston, Texas from t

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject