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"What a wonderful gift Richard Morgan and Jane Thibault offer caregivers. Each has previously contributed in major ways to our understanding of spirituality and aging, and here they combine their experience and expertise to create a timely work of loving integration. Biblically grounded and rich in practical suggestions, their book will bring comfort and hope to all those caring for loved ones with dementia. By means of moving personal stories, the authors invite each of us to live from the spiritual convictions crucial to such care; the abiding worth of every human person and the enduring power of even the smallest act of love.

Dr. Kathleen Fischer Author of Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging.

"This book breaks new ground in sharing the many examples of persons with dementia who evidence a depth of emotional and spiritual expression that is possible, when someone will listen and be present to a person with dementia."

Dr. Elizabeth MacKinlay, Director of the Centre for Aging and Pastoral Studies, Charles Stuart University, Canberra, Australia


 

No Act of Love Is Ever Wasted:  The Spirituality of Caring for Persons with Dementia

By Jane M. Thibault and Richard L. Morgan

This book will present caregiving as a spiritual path for caregivers and persons with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. The book holds special significance for the growing number of caregivers who have loved ones diagnosed with these diseases of the brain. It will show how caregiving can move beyond a medical model to a person centered model of care. It offers spiritual help for those struggling with the 36 hour a day care at home for loved ones, or who place them in care facilities. It makes it clear that caregiving can be a ministry of love by "being present" and creating new styles of worship. It offers hope to burdened caregivers that there is spiritual help for the challenges they face.

If I ever get dementia, can I trust that God will take care of me?

If someone I care for has dementia, will I be able to love them unshelfishly?

No Act of Love is Ever Wasted addresses head-on the challenge to faith that dementia presents, "Where is God in all of this?"

This book is for anyone who provides care to dementia: Families providing care at home, professional caregivers, clergypersons or anyone who loves someone with dementia.

Feature includes:
Basic information about the various types of dementia
Suggestions for providing spiritual care for persons with dementia
Thought-provoking questions for individual or group reflection
Helpful appendix with tips for leading support groups and planning worship services for persons with dementia.


What Our Readers Say

Neurologist Louis  W. Catalano, Director of the Neurological Institute of Western Pennsylvania writes"No Act of Love is Ever Wasted opens our eyes to the spiritual options of dealing with all those affected by dementia. This book puts a new, resorative option into caring for those with or affected with dementia, tells where God fits into the equation, and  and helps each of us rethink our path in the process.

Virginia Bell, co-author of The Best Friend's Approach to Alzheimer's Care, says, "Persons with dementia cry out to be known, connected, loved and respected. The authors provide the "missing peace" tp help fulfill these spiritual needs. This book is a must read for all caregivers of persons with dementia.

"We pastors have witnessed the heartbreaking traumatic moments when our own family members, friends, congregation members slowly descend into dementia. We anxiously observe the impairment of their mental activity, mood and judgment and desperately want to help. ...We feel so unprepared, vulnerable and uncomfortable as we are reminded of our own mortality. The pages of this thoughtfully, well researched, "ground breaking"volume presents practical advice for people with dementia and caregivers...This is a must book for clergy, seminarians and all concerned with spiritual care."

Dr. Earl A Grollman, Co-author of When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's
    
   

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