Ageing, disability, and spirituality : addressing the challenge of disability in later life /: addressing the challenge of disability in later life. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Aging, disability, and spirituality
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elizabeth MacKinlay.
• Other Names: MacKinlay, Elizabeth, 1940-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 362.6; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism; MEDICAL / Nursing / Home & Community Care; Coping With Old Age; Spirituality & Religious Experience; Older people -- Religious life; Church work with older people; People with disabilities -- Religious life; Church work with people with disabilities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846427671; 1846427673
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.