Spirituality, personhood, and dementia
By: edited by Albert Jewell
Contributors: Kitwood, T. M.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781849051545
Subjects: Church work with nursing home patients; Patients; Religious life; Senile dementia
Description: Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and in providing them with a resource for coping. Offering an inter-disciplinary approach to spirituality and personhood in dementia care, the contributors to this book are leading practitioners and researchers in the field. They provide both a theoretical structure and a practical understanding of the essential role that spirituality can play in the affirmation of personhood and identity, and of ways in which the spiritual well-being of people with dementia can be nurtured. This thought-provoking book includes chapters approaching the subject from Christian and Buddhist perspectives, discussion of inter-faith relations, and of what spirituality might mean for those not part of any faith tradition.
Notes: Festschrift for Tom Kitwood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.