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Religious and spiritual care

Rev Jeanette Power Team chaplain, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Rev Jeanette Power believes that people with dementia can be supported in their faith

In our cognitively obsessed society, intelligence is highly valued and we do not recognise, nurture and celebrate other human qualities. So, our definition of personhood rests upon consciousness, rationality and autonomy, which effectively excludes those with severe cognitive impairment.

Nursing Older People. 18, 7, 24-27. doi: 10.7748/nop.18.7.24.s15

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