Whispering Hope and Faith: Still, Small Voices for the Alzheimer’s Journey

摘要: Profound memory loss is commonly referred to as “loss of self.” However, it never means soul.” People with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) continue experience spiritual needs, do their caregivers. For many people, religious or experiences are part long-term memories. These memories accessible the person AD until very late in disease. Ancient a parent praying child singing hymns comfort may date back infancy and so preserved brain well after verbal communication has been destroyed along short-term memory. Religious music continues be one most powerful interventions for reaching those stages AD. Music stored through complex neural network that preserves when other areas This chapter discusses ways needs can met music, literature, touch, prayer, candles, menorah, rosary Bible, smell incense, wine, fresh bread.