Valuing older people : a humanist approach to ageing /

How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purposes both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach this book argues that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demand a h...

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Библиографические подробности
Другие авторы: Edmondson, Ricca, Kondratowitz, Hans-Joachim von
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press 2009.
Серии:Ageing and the lifecourse.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qgk9r
Оглавление:
  • Valuing Older People; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Religious belonging and spiritual questioning: a Western European perspective on ageing and religion; 2. Spirituality: a means for achieving integration in personal and community spheres in an ageing Singapore; 3. Integrating the sacred in creative ageing; 4. Atheist convictions, Christian beliefs or 'keeping things open'? Patterns of world views among three generations in East German families; 5. Beyond dialogue: entering the fourth space in old age.