177 - Dementia, Memory Ministry, & Informed Compassion (feat. Mary McDaniel Cail)

CXMH: On Faith & Mental Health

Content warning: this episode contains mentions of suicide, miscarriage, and loss.

This week we’re joined by Dr. Mary Cail, author of Dementia and the Church: Memory, Care, and Inclusion and Alzheimer's: A Crash Course for Friends and Relatives. She explains why the church’s role can be so important in caring for those impacted by dementia, some basic steps to start in memory ministry, and why ‘informed compassion’ is so important.

Things we mention in this episode/other resources:

- CXMH ep. 142 - People Living With Dementia and Their Caregivers (feat. Dr. Brianna Garrison & Dr. Dennis Myers)

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Intro/Outro music for this episode is ‘Fall Down’ by Rivers & Robots.