Spirituality and Personhood in Dementia

Albert Jewell

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• ISBN:
  9780857003522
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Diseases & Allergies

Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and in providing them with a resource for coping.

Offering an inter-disciplinary approach to spirituality and personhood in dementia care, the contributors to this book are leading practitioners and researchers in the field. They provide both a theoretical structure and a practical understanding of the essential role that spirituality can play in the affirmation of personhood and identity, and of ways in which the spiritual well-being of people with dementia can be nurtured. This thought-provoking book includes chapters approaching the subject from Christian and Buddhist perspectives, discussion of inter-faith relations, and of what spirituality might mean for those not part of any faith tradition.

This will be valuable reading for nurses, care workers, care commissioners and pastoral support professionals interested in a more holistic and contemplative approach to caring for people with dementia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Of Related Interest
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Maintaining a sense of Personhood in Dementia: A Personal View
• 3. A Carer’s Perspective
• 4. Walking with a Person into Dementia: Creating Care together
• 5. Becoming a Friend of time: A Consideration of how we may Approach Persons with Dementia through spiritual sharing in the Moment
• 6. To Live and Do and Help – A Life that’s Worthwhile: Reflections on the spiritual Meaning of Generosity for People Living with Dementia
• 7. Voicing the spiritual: Working with People with Dementia
• 8. New Directions in Cognitive Behavioural therapy for older People with Dementia and Depression
• 9. Gathering and Growing Gifts through Creative Expression and Playfulness
• 10. The Holistic Care of older People in Care Homes
• 11. Making the Journey together: Palliative Care of Persons with Dementia
• 12. Loving Attention: Chaplaincy as a Model of spiritual Care for those with Dementia
• 13. Resilience Promotion and its Relevance to the Personhood needs of People with Dementia and other Brain Damage
• 14. Sounding the Depths: A Reflection on the Challenge of Dementia to Religious Belief and Practice
• 15. ‘They Maintained the Fabric of this World’: Spirituality and the non-Religious
• 16. Being in the Moment: Developing a Contemplative Approach to spiritual Care with People who have Dementia
• 17. Personhood, Personalism and Dementia: A Journey of Becoming
• 18. A situated Embodied View of the Person with Dementia: Where Does the spiritual Come In?
• The Contributors
• References
• Subject Index
• Author Index