Valuing older people : a humanist approach to ageing /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Edmondson, Ricca, Kondratowitz, Hans-Joachim von
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2009.
Colección:Ageing and the lifecourse.
Temas:
Older people > Social conditions.
Population aging > Economic aspects.
Gerontology > Social aspects.
Gerontology > Philosophy.
Personnes âgées > Conditions sociales.
Vieillissement de la population > Aspect économique.
Gérontologie sociale.
Gérontologie > Philosophie.
old age.
elderly.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Aging.
Altern
Menschenwürde
Ethik
Religion
Alter
Altern.
Alter.
Älterer Mensch.
Äldre > sociala aspekter.
Åldrandet.
Aufsatzsammlung
Old age
Older people
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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