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Session 4:

Supporting Carers and Forming Support Teams

In this session we’ll identify two important needs for caregivers, explain what support teams are and why they are important, and suggest steps to help people form their own support team.
The aim is that by the end of these sessions you will feel that your church is a community in which people affected by dementia can experience love, concern and friendship, and that you will be ready to go on supporting them in appropriate ways, including helping them to build their own support team.

Video 4A: Two important needs for caregivers

Talking Point:

  1. Do you feel you have gained some understanding through these sessions of those affected by dementia in your church and community?
  2. How will you work further on these basic steps: Seeing, Listening, Praying, Enabling & Including, Offering practical help?

Video 4B: Forming Support Teams

Talking Point:

  1. What do you think of the 5 suggestions for helping carers to form their own support teams (see pg 26 of the workbook)? What has been your experience so far? Do you have relationships that enable you to take these steps? What challenges have you faced?
  2. Discuss specific plans for working with people you have identified. Agree on:
  • praying for them and for yourselves as you support them
  • a time when you will report back to each other and review
  • next steps that you will take, with a definite time frame.
      3.   How can your church be more truly a community of love, care and spiritual power, which those
             affected by dementia will feel able to draw on?

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