| Sumario: | Providing spiritual care for persons with dementia is often challenging owing to the high reliance on explicit, language-based, declarative memory in typical religious organizations. Pastoral care providers can break through this barrier of memory, in part, by a thoughtful and deliberate use of techniques related to implicit memory. This involves using another form of memory that is primarily unconscious, diffused, symbolic, affective and not language-based. The article provides several suggestions of how to reach the implicit memory of persons with dementia, thereby building relationships with them, and providing effective pastoral care.
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