Graceful Alzheimer's Care: Churches' Call to Action

By Cate McCarty

"Graceful Alzheimer's Care" is a fourteen-week study guide for church and lay leaders to explore the church's role in providing Christ-like care to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other chronic diseases. Due to medical and health advances, there are far more elders in our congregations today than ever before-with an alarming percentage living with Alzheimer's. Although many faith communities have strong healing ministries, they have fallen short in understanding the challenges of dementia and their ramifications on the individual and caregivers. Inspired by the two main covenants of the Bible, "Graceful Alzheimer's Care" encourages the development of a caregiving covenant with three pillars: prayer, presence, and practice. Then, using uplifting stories from the Old and New Testaments, Dr. Cate applies powerful spiritual wisdom to the international Alzheimer's crisis. Bringing over forty years of practical, academic, and spiritual knowledge in assisting individuals with dementia and their families, author Cate McCarty, PhD, ADC, wrote this book as a call to action for the spiritual community.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514223295
• ISBN13: 9781514223291
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"