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Inner peace amidst dementia

Finding deep peace in Tettenhall Church – the building, hymns & liturgy


Appreciating the present moment at Rushall Memory Café

Community connections and cake – “not just for people with dementia”

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“Enjoy every minute of them, with what you’ve got”

Our Dementia Action Week prayer, affirming presence, thankfulness & love

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'Book of Prayers' through dementia

Sharing the story, ordering your copies

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Dementia-Friendly Physical Environment for Schools

In our school buildings, what’s helpful for someone with dementia?

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Safeguarding & Dementia

Neil and Peter from our Safeguarding team shared some great wisdom and best practice in conversation with Dementia-freindly Churches/Schools enabler, Sarah Thorpe.

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Dementia-friendly physical environment for churches

In our buildings, what’s helpful or unhelpful for someone with dementia?

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Welcoming, Connecting, Friendly

Dementia awareness service at East Telford benefice – and for your church

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Fully Known

Knowing and welcoming individuals - in Rocester

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Nana’s Washday

Turning 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.

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Prayers through Dementia

For Dementia Action Week 13–19 May 2024

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Network Engagement and Impact

Across our Dementia-friendly Churches Network, what's working? What's helpful? What's important? A report from Staffordshire University helps us take stock.

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Time Together

The 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.

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Working Together - Dementia-Friendly Churches & Schools

In 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

A 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?

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Knowing as a church we care

Christ Church Burntwood has been engaged with become a more dementia-friendly church at the heart of a dementia-friendly community for some while now.

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Prayer as stepping out in faith

Our third Dementia Action Week story comes from Shropshire


Prayer as an anchor

Our second Dementia Action Week blog comes from Di Holt, a Reader at St Luke’s Church, Cannock.


Prayer as connection

Schools as well as churches can become Dementia-friendly places. St Paul's Longton is one school taking steps:


Praying from the heart

In 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

This 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

This 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

Lichfield 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

What 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

“When you know one person living with dementia… you know one person living with dementia”!


Listening well: heart-level conversations

Giving space for lamenting and celebrating


I was part of it

Reviewing the dementia-friendly churches network in 2021, here's an overview, at head and heart level.


Three pictures making the bigger picture

People 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

How does our experience of dementia affect our faith?


Do the little things

St David, the patron saint of Wales, recognised that small steps can make a massive difference.

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