Beyond the Biomedical Paradigm: Generating a Spiritual Vision of Ageing

The time has come to enlarge our understanding of what an ageing older person truly is. What is called for is an approach to ageing and its multiple processes that moves beyond an empirical research model, which is limited to a positivistic focus on the bio-medical and social conditions of ageing. T...

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Main Author: Kimble, Melvin 1920-2019 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Haworth Press 2002
In: Journal of religious gerontology
Year: 2002, Volume: 12, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 31-41
Further subjects:B dying and death
B gero-transcendence
B dimensional ontology
B Symbols
B Biomedical paradigm
B Suffering
B Spiritual / spirituality
B Meaning
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