NOTE: Related resources can be found at Specialty Care Resources: Long Term Care.
A Picture Book to share with your patients
NACC is grateful to Sarah Fredricksen, BCC
A hospice chaplain with an idea. An idea to create a book of images to share with her Catholic dementia patients, to bring them the comfort of their faith.
She found an artist and commissioned some drawings for her picture book. Sarah offers her beautiful collection of watercolors to the NACC.
The paintings were created by the artist named above for free use by the NACC chaplains.
There are 12 images which depict some of the most important, and memorable events in Jesus’ life.
A Picture Book to share with your patients (8.5×11 single pages)
A Picture Book to share with your patients (5.5 x 8.5 booklet)
NACC Special Webinar: Addressing the Spiritual Needs of Persons with Dementia
In early 2019 NACC member Dr. Debbie Armenta presented a workshop at the NACC national conference entitled Addressing the Spiritual Needs of Persons with Dementia in Parish Ministry. Based on the positive reception to her workshop and the expressed requests by NACC webinar participants for more information about working with dementia patients, at the invitation of the NACC Debbie agreed to present a webinar series that covered the topic in more depth.
More information
Registration (for the recording)
Vision articles
Dementia communication tools will benefit professionals (Book review of Communication Skills for Effective Dementia Care: A Practical Guide to Communication and Interaction Training, 2019. Review by Anne M. Windholz, 2020)
Communicating in the language of dementia (Maria Shedleski, 2019)
Theological anthropology: Reclaiming personhood for people living with dementia (Dan Lunney, 2019)
Older adults find spirituality in community (Jennifer Paquette, 2019)
Dementia: The testimony of silence (Matt Moser, 2016)
A practical theology of dementia (Book review of Dementia. Living in the Memories of God, 2012. Review by John Gillman, 2014)
Other Articles
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and dementia patients
Zoë Krizak, MAPS, shared this with us. She writes:
I want to share an article with you about using Catechesis of the Good Shepherd with people with dementia. If you find it useful, feel free to share.
Mustard Seed Preaching — Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Next Generation
To suggest a resource or link for this collection, or to submit a document, contact Phil Paradowski at pparadowski@nacc.org
