Working Together - Dementia-Friendly Churches & Schools
Published: 13th October 2023In 2022/3, our first ten schools across the Diocese of Lichfield signed up for Dementia-Friendly School framework and Certificate.
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Dementia-friendly Welcome
Published: 8th September 2023A good way to make your church’s welcome more dementia-friendly is to run a session for Welcomers. Why not try the format which has been used effectively at St Mary’s Church, Market Drayton?
Knowing as a church we care
Published: 17th July 2023Christ Church Burntwood has been engaged with become a more dementia-friendly church at the heart of a dementia-friendly community for some while now.
Prayer as stepping out in faith
Published: 16th May 2023Our third Dementia Action Week story comes from Shropshire
Prayer as an anchor
Published: 16th May 2023Our second Dementia Action Week blog comes from Di Holt, a Reader at St Luke’s Church, Cannock.
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Prayer as connection
Published: 16th May 2023Schools as well as churches can become Dementia-friendly places. St Paul's Longton is one school taking steps:
Praying from the heart
Published: 3rd May 2023In the run up to Dementia Action Week, prayers are the solace many have contributed in our Share A Prayer Through Dementia Initiative.
Share a Prayer through Dementia
Published: 27th April 2023This year, people from across the diocese have contributed prayers from the heart, with our “Share a Prayer through Dementia” initiative, giving fresh prayers to use in Dementia Action Week (15-21 May)
'Head to Heart' resource for families living through dementia
Published: 30th January 2023This resource is born of personal experience. My dad died in 2018 and he was diagnosed with dementia ten years earlier. He’d been a solicitor in Birmingham and spent his working life making incisive, head-level connections. The journey of the last decade of his life was a journey from head to heart.
Dementia-Friendly Cathedral
Published: 4th July 2022Lichfield Cathedral has recently joined 94 other churches in our Diocese that our recognised with a Dementia-Friendly Church Certificate
Dementia awareness – Part of church life
Published: 6th June 2022What would it take for every single church in our diocese to be able to say confidently, “Dementia awareness is part of church life”.
All shapes and sizes
Published: 25th May 2022“When you know one person living with dementia… you know one person living with dementia”!
Listening well: heart-level conversations
Published: 10th February 2022Giving space for lamenting and celebrating
I was part of it
Published: 16th December 2021Reviewing the dementia-friendly churches network in 2021, here's an overview, at head and heart level.
Three pictures making the bigger picture
Published: 20th October 2021People affected by dementia live through unchosen challenges. Within our Diocese of Lichfield dementia-friendly churches network, we are focusing this autumn on three pictures that help us to see the bigger picture, noticing God’s presence as dementia progresses.
Dementia and Spirituality
Published: 30th September 2021How does our experience of dementia affect our faith?
Do the little things
Published: 5th July 2021St David, the patron saint of Wales, recognised that small steps can make a massive difference.
Shaping for Mission and dementia
Published: 24th June 2021How does our Diocese of Lichfield Dementia-Friendly Churches network fit in with our “Shaping for Mission†programme across our 28 deaneries and our Diocese of Lichfield?
What motivates action on dementia?
Published: 26th March 2021At a recent dementia-friendly churches local network meeting, we shared personal experiences of dementia. What had been the impact for us? What had motivated us to continue to take action on dementia now?
Warm Welcome High Sheriff's Award
Published: 17th March 2021Warm Welcome dementia is a group run by the churches in Newport for anyone living with dementia and memory problems. The group has been awarded a High Sheriff of Shropshire Award, given to groups or individuals who have contributed to their local community.
Heart of Tamworth Memory Café
Published: 23rd February 2021Dementia-friendly Churches Enabler, Sarah Thorpe brings news from the eastern tip of the diocese
Lamentation and Celebration over Christmas and New Year
Published: 7th January 2021Celebration and lamentation in the dementia-friends community before Christmas
Bishop Michael’s lead on Dementia-Friendly Church
Published: 9th December 2020Bishop Michael Ipgrave, the Bishop of Lichfield, affirmed that he is “proud to be part of Diocese that takes Dementia-Friendly Church seriouslyâ€, when he spoke at our Dementia-Friendly Churches Zoom Training Day in October 2020.
The Hands of God?
Published: 8th October 2020Developing our Dementia-Friendly Churches Network
Faith resources as dementia advances
Published: 4th September 2020An occupational therapist recently asked me a really good question that got me thinking
The Promptings of God in Residential Care Home Worship
Published: 19th August 2020No service plan should be expected to survive contact with the congregation...
Residential care visiting: Latest MHA good practice to share
Published: 17th August 2020Residential care homes involve a community of residents and relatives, and staff – and Care home communities have been particularly impacted by Covid-19 restrictions.
Care Homes, Churches and Coronavirus
Published: 26th May 2020There are care homes across the diocese and some of these have been particularly hard hit by the Coronavirus...
Coronavirus and dementia
Published: 12th May 2020Challenge and change, conversations and connections
105 people at Guernsey’s first Dementia-Friendly Carol Service
Published: 12th February 2020In summer 2018, I led a Dementia-Friendly Churches Training Day in Guernsey. It’s wonderful to hear from St Saviour’s Church there about the next steps they’ve taken
