More is known about preventing dementia than ever before. It includes taking care of mental health.
In an odd paradox, looking at the effects of dementia helps reveal how we are made in the image of God, because we are more than the sum of our parts. Discussing God’s design and how He cares for us can be affirming and even bring joy.
When someone we love has dementia, we need all our communication skills to help them, including reading between the lines and understanding their behaviour.
Researchers found that most middle aged people said they would not take part in a test of an Alzheimer’s drug, fearing the side effects. From those reported in recent years, it is understandable.
Helping elderly relatives can be difficult, especially when they want to maintain their independence, including those living with dementia, so a light bulb that sees and monitors is a boon.
The most important aspect of dementia care is helping to hold intact the identity of the person with dementia (Kitwood, 2010) As the disease progresses it can seem that the person has changed and is not recognisable as who he/she used to be. But changed behaviour does not mean that the person has disappeared.
Even in the deepest dementia, when the person seems to have disappeared, he or she remains. And God still speaks to His people. This is just one story of that.
Worship helps us to hold ourselves together. In one of his devotional books, Selwyn Hughes, one of Wales’ best-loved preachers, pointed out that in worship we find unity, not just with God but within ourselves.
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The last thing I expected from a conference on the elderly and dementia was to come away rejoicing!’ said one friend to another as they
‘I never thought that I would attend a conference on issues of old age and dementia, and come away feeling so full of joy.’ ‘We’d
When someone has dementia, the person remains. However changed the behaviour, however different the person seems to be, the essence of the person remains. (Stokes[i]
A councillor in North Yorkshire County Council has warned that cost cutting has left older people without transport and at risk of loneliness. Shelagh Marshall,
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