Witnessing Dementia

with Marilyn McEntyre

Many of us are or will be caring for people with dementia. When those are people we love, the task is especially emotionally and spiritually challenging.  Drawing on helpful works by David Troxel and Virginia Bell, longtime leaders in the Alzheimer’s Association, as well as on my own experience as a hospice volunteer, daughter, and granddaughter of people living with dementia, I will be offering and inviting reflections on how we may gracefully and imaginatively “come alongside” people with dementia.

witnessing dementia

This offering is now hosted for online access. After purchasing, you will receive an email with supplemental resources and a link to the streaming video.

Cost: $35

After decades of teaching college literature, including interdisciplinary courses in literature, medicine, and environmental studies, I worked part-time at a medical school for ten years and taught medical humanities. During that time I also taught at Princeton seminary and in the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Several of my books have focused wholly or in part on the life of body and spirit: Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out; A Faithful Farewell; and A Long Letting Go, the latter two reflections on death and loss that drew on my work as a hospice volunteer.