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Dementia Resources
This dementia care resource page has been coordinated by Rev. Dawn N. Jefferson, who is a minister, advocate, and caregiver leading virtual spiritual support sessions to members of faith communities. Rev. Jefferson’s service has been sponsored by the Spring Glen Church of Hamden, CT and the Anne Higgins Fund established by the Historic Connecticut Conference of the UCC, specifically for the training of clergy and others for ministry to older adults.
Email Pastor Dawn at consult@dawnjefferson.com for additional information or to add resources to this list to support caregivers and faith communities.
Caregiver Support Group every 1st Wednesday at 7:30 pm ET (Zoom). Complete this form to confirm your interest.
Dementia Resources List
Useful Tools
Helpful Videos
- UCLA Caregiver Training
- Teepa Snow’s 10 Early Signs (Positive Approaches to Care site)
- What You Need to Know about Early Onset Alzheimer’s
- Example of Sundowning
- Dementia Careblazers
- Christine Bryden Explaining How Dementia Feels
- Rev. Jefferson’s Dementia Care Beyond the Fear Training Session #1
- Dementia 101 Video – Teepa Snow
- Genetics of Dementia – Alzheimer’s Society UK
Articles
- Memory Loss and 10 Early Signs of Dementia
- Bryden, Christine and MacKinlay, Elizabeth Bernice. “Dementia: A Spiritual Journey Towards the Divine: A Personal View of Dementia.”
- “I Am Still With You”: Dementia and the Christian Wayfarer, Warren Kinghorn (Duke Divinity)
- Christopher Newell & Fran Gillespie (2001). Psychiatric Disability and Pastoral Care: Towards a Richer Theology of Disability. Contact, 136:1, 5–13. DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2001.11758924
- Older Adults Living Alone – Pew Research Center
- Older Women Aging Alone – Pew Research Center
- Aged Loneliness – Pew Research Center
- Mast, Benjamin T. Second Forgetting: Remembering the Power of the Gospel During Alzheimer’s Disease.
- African-Americans and Alzheimer’s: The Silent Epidemic
- NCBI / PubMed Central article (PMC4084964)
- Medical News Today
Pamphlets & Sites
- The Dementias: Hope Through Research Booklet – National Institutes of Health
- Making Your Home Dementia Friendly Booklet – Alzheimer’s Society UK
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Vascular Dementia
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Frontotemporal Dementia
Books (Theological)
- Swinton, John. Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
- Eiesland, Nancy. 1995. The Disabled God
- Linthicum, Dorothy and Hicks, Janice. Redeeming Dementia: Spirituality, Theology and Science
- Webb-Mitchell, Brett. Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities Into the Church
- Brock, Brian. Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability and the Body of Christ
- Ignatieff, Michael. Scar Tissue
- McKim, Donald. God Never Forgets: Faith, Hope, and Alzheimer’s Disease
- Kitwood, Tom. Alzheimer’s Reconsidered
Advocates and Organizations
- Christine Bryden – Australian scientist who developed dementia at 46
- Dementia Friends
- Alzheimer’s Association
- Dementia Society of America
- National Institute on Aging (NIH)
- The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration of Connecticut
To share this page with others, you may use this link: dawnjefferson.org/ministry/caregiver-resources
Compiled by Rev. Dawn N. Jefferson for her work with Practical Theology of Dementia (2021).
Email Pastor Dawn at consult@dawnjefferson.com for additional information or to add resources to this list.
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