Through a Glass Darkly: A Dialogue Between Dementia and Faith

Our understanding and experience of dementia is changing and developing, as is our understanding and experience of faith. Both areas offer signs of hope but both also contain evidence of discrimination and disenchantment. This paper seeks to explore these parallel worlds from the perspective of the...

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Published in:Journal of religious gerontology
Main Author: Goldsmith, Malcolm 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Haworth Press 2002
In: Journal of religious gerontology
Further subjects:B Theology
B carers (family and institutional)
B Faith
B Hope
B Dementia
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Summary:Our understanding and experience of dementia is changing and developing, as is our understanding and experience of faith. Both areas offer signs of hope but both also contain evidence of discrimination and disenchantment. This paper seeks to explore these parallel worlds from the perspective of the person with dementia, the family carer, the institutional carer and the community of faith. It closes with a challenge to theology to demonstrate just what is the Good News of the Gospel for the person with dementia.
ISSN:1528-686X
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious gerontology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1300/J078v12n03_10