Spiritual & Ethical Questions About Meeting The Challenge Of Alzheimer’s

Spiritual & Ethical Questions About Meeting The Challenge Of Alzheimer’s with Stephen G. Post

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Few ailments raise as much fear and as many wide-ranging ethical and metaphysical questions as Alzheimer’s such as:

Where do our memories live?
Where do our loved ones go when their minds are afflicted by Alzheimer’s?
Can Alzheimer’s be prevented?
What is going on when someone who has been unable to communicate verbally suddenly becomes surprisingly lucid?
How do we preserve the dignity of our deeply forgetful loved ones?
What role can music, creativity and even dementia dogs play in supporting and improving the lives of our deeply forgetful loved ones?
And what about their souls?

Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., is internationally recognized as the foremost medical humanist and ethicist writing on the vitally important topic of meeting the challenges of Alzheimer’s. His seminal book, The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer’s Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying was designated a “medical classic of the century” by the British Medical Journal. During the 1990’s his research on the dynamics of compassionate love in the lives of persons with dementia and their caregivers resulted in his being elected member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Alzheimer’s Disease International.

This week Dr. Stephen G. Post joins Sandie to discuss the moral and ethical questions covered in his latest book Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease in which he not only covers the value of art, poetry, symbols, personalized music and nature in revealing self-identity, and dementia companion dogs, but also argues for . a dignity grounded in consciousness, emotional presence, creativity, interdependence, and a self that is gone but differently abled.

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