This course, The Challenge of Memory: Alzheimer's and Other Dementias, is designed to assist chaplains, spiritual care providers, and other professional health disciplines in understanding and applying concepts about dementia to their care of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions in which cognition, memory, and expression are impaired. It includes information on how impairment of cognition and memory may affect a person’s sense of identity and their religious, spiritual, and/or existential experience. Professional providers have opportunities to mentor as well as support the patient, to safeguard the patient against medical errors and under-provisioning of palliative treatments, and to teach other caregivers who interact with and care for such patients.
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