“Enjoy every minute of them, with what you’ve got”
Published: 19th May 2025Our Dementia Action Week prayer, affirming presence, thankfulness & love
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'Book of Prayers' through dementia
Published: 20th March 2025Sharing the story, ordering your copies
Dementia-Friendly Physical Environment for Schools
Published: 5th February 2025In our school buildings, what’s helpful for someone with dementia?
Safeguarding & Dementia
Published: 8th January 2025Neil and Peter from our Safeguarding team shared some great wisdom and best practice in conversation with Dementia-freindly Churches/Schools enabler, Sarah Thorpe.
Dementia-friendly physical environment for churches
Published: 25th November 2024In our buildings, what’s helpful or unhelpful for someone with dementia?
Welcoming, Connecting, Friendly
Published: 22nd October 2024Dementia awareness service at East Telford benefice – and for your church
Fully Known
Published: 24th July 2024Knowing and welcoming individuals - in Rocester
Nana’s Washday
Published: 3rd July 2024Turning a church into a laundry, complete with thunder and lightning is perfectly normal for Julie and Louise as they support adults with complex needs and people affected by dementia.
Prayers through Dementia
Published: 10th May 2024For Dementia Action Week 13–19 May 2024
Network Engagement and Impact
Published: 3rd May 2024Across our Dementia-friendly Churches Network, what's working? What's helpful? What's important? A report from Staffordshire University helps us take stock.
Time Together
Published: 26th March 2024The warmth of the atmosphere is what struck me first and foremost as I arrived at Time Together, run by Churches Together in Whitchurch at Bargates Hall beside St Alkmund’s Church. St Alkmund’s has had a dementia-friendly church Certificate since 2018.
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.
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?