Ageing, disability, and spirituality
Subtitle: addressing the challenge of disability in later life
By: edited by Elizabeth MacKinlay.
Contributors: MacKinlay, Elizabeth, 1940-
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843105848
Subjects: Older people -- Religious life; Church work with older people; People with disabilities -- Religious life; Church work with people with disabilities
Other titles: Aging, disability, and spirituality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ageing, disability and spirituality / Elizabeth MacKinlay; title: Remembering the person: theological reflections on God, personhood and dementia / John Swinton; title: Ethics, ageing and disability / Laurence McNamara; title: New and old challenges of ageing: disabilities, spirituality and pastoral responses / Elizabeth MacKinlay; title: The particular needs of older people with intellectual disabilities and their carers: a perspective from the experience of L'Arche / Eileen Glass; title: Better dead than disabled? when ethics and disability meet: a narrative of ageing, loss and exclusion / Christopher Newell; title: Disabled or enabled: ethical and theological issues for dementia care / Rosalie Hudson; title: On relationships not things: exploring disability and spirituality / Lorna Hallahan; title: Scriptural reminiscence and narrative gerontology: Jacob's wrestling with the unknown (Genesis 32) / Matthew Anstey; title: Tracing rainbows through the rain: addressing the challenge of dementia in later life / Malcolm Goldsmith; title: Dementia: a journey inwards to a spiritual self / Christine Bryden and Elizabeth MacKinlay; title: Bodhi, Karuna and Metta: Buddhist perspectives for a theology of pastoral care for the ageing and persons with disabilities / Ruwan Palapathwala; title: "Who is God in the pit of ashes?" the interplay of faith and depression in older age / Dagmar Ceramidas; title: Hearing the voice of the elderly: the potential for choir work to reduce depression and meet spiritual needs. a pilot study / Kirstin Robertson-Gillam; title: Humour and its link to meaning and spirituality in war / Carmen Moran; title: Pastoral rituals, ageing and new paths into meaning / Alan Niven; title: Ageing, disability and spirituality: the possibilities for well-being and care / Elizabeth MacKinlay.