1st Edition
Understanding Existential Health for Dementia Care
Part 1: Existential Health, Suffering, Personhood, and Culture
1. Existential Health and Persons with Dementia
Peter la Cour
2. Dementia as an Existential Challenge: Acknowledging the Paradox of Suffering and Meaning
Tatjana Schnell
3. The Fear of Dementia and the Challenge to Personhood: Exploring the Depths of Our Existential Dread
Peter Kevern
4. The Cultural Struggle in Dementia Care: A Focus on Acculturation, Religion, and Existential Concerns
Önver Cetrez
5. Vignettes: Existential Dramas in Patients with Severe Dementia
Tor-Arne Isene
Part 2: Existential Health Related to Person-Centered Care, Brain Complexity of Dementia, Daily Living, and Emotions
6. Person-Centered Care and Existential Health
Bjørn Lichtwarck
7. The Brain and the Complexity of Dementia
Sverre Bergh
8. Types of Dementia, Daily Living, and Existential Health
Knut Hestad and Knut Engedal
9. Beyond Memory Loss: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in Dementia Care
Gry Stålsett
Part 3: Existential Health in Practice
10. Existential Conversations in Dementia: The Card Methods
Peter la Cour, Bendik Sparre Hovet, and Trine Maria Struer-Tranberg
11. Conversations on Existential Themes with Persons with Dementia
Silje Mathea Nylund and Ingvild Hjorth Feiring
12. Navigating Dementia with Cultural and Spiritual Sensitivity: The Role of Family and Caregivers
Gry Stålsett, Shahram Shaygani, Lars Lien, and Lars Johan Danbolt
13. The Importance of Online Discussion Forums for Caregivers in Dementia Care
Hans Stifoss-Hanssen and Peter Kevern
14. The Presence of the Past: Existential Dementia Care in a Life Tapestry Perspective
Lars Johan Danbolt
Forgotten but Not Disappeared
Sturla J. Stålsett
Biography
Lars Johan Danbolt is Head of research at Research Center for Existential Health, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway, and adjunct professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway. Main research fields are existential health, clinical psychology of religion, and practical theology.
Tatjana Schnell is Professor of Existential Psychology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway, and Fellow at the Humanistic University Berlin, Germany. As head of the Existential Psychology Lab, she focuses on fundamental questions of how to conceptualize and measure meaning in life and on the nexus of meaning in life and health, work, worldview, suffering and dying, civic engagement, and alienation.
Gry Stålsett is a specialist in Clinical Psychology and Associate Professor of Psychology of Religion at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo. She serves as the Head of Clinical Practice at Bispehagen, Center for Existential Therapy and Counseling in Stavanger, Norway.
Peter la Cour PhD, is health psychologist, and adjunct professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway. Main research interests are existential health, the psychology of pain and suffering, and psychology of religion.
