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Aug 26, 2014 · Background: Religious and spiritual issues are clearly important to the older adult population and may play a. positive role in maintaining health and recovering from illness. This study ...
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Nov 19, 2012 · Dementia: Living in the Memories of God. J. Swinton. Published 19 November 2012. Philosophy. Dementia has been described as the ‘Theological disease’i because it seems to damage the self, raising difficult questions about personhood, sin and salvation. Much of Christianity is heavily intellectual, concerned with believing the right things.
- Understanding Dementia
- Christian Personalism
- A Personalist Theology of Dementia
- Dementia and The Trinity
- Conclusion
Dementia is a term used to describe a number of illnesses that affect the brain and a person’s ability to perform everyday tasks. Common forms of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and some forms of multiple sclerosis. Over 6 million Americans and 400,000 Australianslive with some kind of dementia. Cultural literacy about de...
Personalism is a school of philosophical and theological speculationthat focuses on the infinite uniqueness and depth of each person. Over the past century people like Dorothy Day, Gabriel Marcel, Martin Luther King, and Karol Wojtyla (who became Pope John Paul II) have been described as personalists, but the movement is still not particularly well...
How might personalism inform our understanding of dementia? One of the biggest challenges presented by the social stigma attached to dementia is the idea that people with dementia have lost both their personhood and dignity. Modern rationalist and empiricist philosophy associates the person with consciousness, as evidenced by Rene Descartes cogitoo...
But what about people who are experiencing the most severe forms of dementia? People with so-called “end stage dementia” may not even be able to recognize facial expressions or respond to a soothing or affectionate touch. Has someone in such a state indeed lost their grip on human personhood and connectedness with God? “No,” scholars argue. Two rel...
Theological speculation about dementia has been surprisingly sparse. Christian personalism, however, presents a unique lens through which we can explore the meaning of dementia and its implications for the soul and one’s relationship with God. Even people living with advanced dementia retain the most fundamental form of spiritual agency—the capacit...
Dementia pushes us to ask ourselves about the nature of our identity and faith. Being in Christ. When we get to a later place in God’s story, we make some surprising discoveries. Not only are we made in God’s image, as believers we are caught up in Christ, the perfect image of God (Colossians 1:15; 2:6,7).
Sep 1, 2022 · For persons with greater cognitive impairment, it is possible that anosognosia, which can include an optimism with responses becoming more positive as dementia progresses, may suppress the disease's impact on R/S. 58 It is also possible that spirituality and spiritual well‐being are simply strong in persons with dementia as Bell and Troxel 71 and Berry 72 have found in persons with moderate ...
- 10.1002/trc2.12352
- 2022
- Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2022; 8(1): e12352.
Abstract. Introduction: Literature on the association of religion and spirituality (R/S) and health. is growing. However, it is unclear how R/S affects outcomes and is assessed in persons. with dementia (PWDs). In this integrative review, we evaluate published R/S measures. and synthesize R/S findings for PWDs.
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Dec 15, 2016 · Advanced dementia raises profound questions for what it means to be a person of faith. This article reflects on challenges which it brings, particularly to evangelical Christian faith, including the nature of personhood, cognitive assent to propositional truth and responsive relationship with God.
