{"id":116502,"date":"2022-11-10T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116502"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:45:15","slug":"how-words-of-familiar-prayers-or-hymns-help-people-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116502","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) How words of familiar prayers or hymns help people with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents at Westview House in Totland Bay, on the Isle of Wight might be living with dementia \u2013 but they could remember the words to the Lord\u2019s Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>As Anne Powell started to lead the informal service in the care home, several seemed initially confused about what was going on. <\/p>\n<p>But when Anne started to lead them in the words of the Lord\u2019s Prayer, something amazing happened. Long-term memories kicked in, as many of them recited the words they had learnt decades ago. Something similar happened as they started to sing \u2018All things bright and beautiful\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of ministry that Anne Powell offers regularly, as an \u2018Anna Chaplain\u2019. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/our-faith\/what-we-believe\/how-words-familiar-prayers-or-hymns-help-people-dementia\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How words of familiar prayers or hymns help people with dementia <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3NUB8ko7TH\">https:\/\/t.co\/3NUB8ko7TH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canterbury Diocese (@CanterburyDio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanterburyDio\/status\/1590656363310579713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents at Westview House in Totland Bay, on the Isle of Wight might be living with dementia \u2013 but they could remember the words to the Lord\u2019s Prayer. As Anne Powell started to lead the informal service in the care<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116502\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,199,104,435,184,436,129,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-psychology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116505,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116502\/revisions\/116505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}