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

Contributor(s): MacKinlay, Elizabeth, 1940-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781843105848 (pbk.); 1843105845 (pbk.)Other title: Aging, disability, and spiritualitySubject(s): Older people -- Religious life | Church work with older people | People with disabilities -- Religious life | Church work with people with disabilitiesDDC classification: 362.6 LOC classification: BL625.4 | .A33 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-257) and indexes.
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 later life / Dagmar Ceramidas -- Hearing the voice of the elderly : the potential for choir work to reduce depression and meet spiritual needs / 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-257) 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 later life / Dagmar Ceramidas -- Hearing the voice of the elderly : the potential for choir work to reduce depression and meet spiritual needs / 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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