Prayers
Prayer for Persons Suffering with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
Loving God, Healer and Comforter, we pray for those who suffer from the anxiety, ambiguity and confusion of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Look with mercy upon their distress, confusion or isolation. Shelter them where dignity and peace abound. Grant them understanding helpers and the willingness to accept help. In the face of loss of memory and control, increase their confidence in your love and strengthen their care-givers. As the Good Shepherd, tend to the sick, rest the weary, pity the afflicted, soothe the suffering and bless the dying. We make this supplication through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the name of your Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
by Catholic Health Association of the United States
Book Reviews/Commentaries
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiper Reviewed by Norman Doidge Tablet
General Articles/Commentaries
Finding meaning from dementia to duty to dying by Robert Brennan Ad Rem/Angelus
How can monkeypox affect your brain? New study explains by The Jerusalem Post
New approach to dementia care improving lives by CathNews
Regular Blueberry Consumption May Reduce Risk of Dementia by Neuroscience News
Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: An early career researcher perspective by Nárlon C. Boa Sorte Silva, Oliver Bracko, et al Alzheimer’s Association
Transforming Research to Prevent, Detect, Treat, and Provide Better Care for Dementia by NIH
Will those suffering late-stage dementia be the next to be called less than human? by Charles C. Camosy Religion News Service
Walking Mama Home: Dementia Patients can Lead Happy Lives that Matter by Rebecca Hamilton Patheos
Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers, A Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine by Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH; Clare Stroud, PhD JAMA. April 9, 2021.
Let's talk about the dementia challenge by Bryan Allen Independent Catholic News
Five COVID deaths at Wisconsin home for religious sisters with dementia by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report
Families Sending Relatives with Dementia to Thailand for Care by The Guardian/Bioethics.com
Watching My Son Grow, and My Mom Return to Childhood. My brilliant mom was diagnosed with dementia when my son was a baby. For a time, their interests and abilities matched exactly. by Lizzie Skurnick Parenting
‘You keep loving each other’: A window into dementia at the end of a lifelong partnership by Aliss Ambrosa Stat
How to Prevent Dementia, According to New WHO Guidelines by Maggie O'Neil Health
Medical Journal Articles
Greater Excess Mortality in 2020 for People With Dementia by Anita Slomski JAMA. 2022;327(17):164
Resources
St Agnes' Catholic Parish - Port Macquarie St Agnes’ Catholic Parish provides pastoral, education, childcare, aged care, disability and training services. Port Macquarie, NSW