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Advice From Your AdvocatesCelebrating Holidays with Dementia-Inclusive TraditionsImagine navigating the holiday season with a loved one living with dementia. It's undoubtedly a heart-wrenching reality, yet it also presents an opportunity to connect more profoundly with your loved one. This is the focus of our earnest conversation with the mighty compassionate Elisa Bosley chaplain and founder of Spiritual Elder Care.In this fascinating episode, host Attorney Bob Mannor and Elisa tackle the sensitive subject of including dementia patients in our family and religious traditions. Elisa brings her wealth of experience to the table, offering practical tips for planning ahead and embracing the situation with grace...
2023-12-1333 min
The BEMA Podcast368: Elisa Bosley — Spiritual EldercareBrent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks are joined by Elisa Bosley, founder of Spiritual Eldercare. Elisa has decades of experience leading worship services and Bible studies, and also working with adults who have dementia. Combining those efforts, she became a chaplain in 2016 and serves at a long-term memory care community in Boulder, Colorado.Spiritual EldercareAdditional audio production by Gus SimpsonSpecial Guest: Elisa Bosley.Support The BEMA Podcast
2023-11-3055 min
Advice From Your AdvocatesDementia, Devotion and SpiritualityElisa Bosley, a licensed non-denominational Chaplin based in Colorado, met with host Attorney Bob Mannor to discuss the lack of faith-based resources for those facing Dementia, Alzheimer's disease or memory loss.With decades of experience leading worship and bible studies, Elisa founded Spiritualeldercare.com and subsequently her YouTube Channel.Elisa explains the differences between religious care and spiritual care as well as what those differences can mean for the person with Dementia. The impact of spiritual care revolves around the familiarity and repetition of practice that elders with Dementia can lean into their long-term memory.
2023-03-2428 min
Real Faith Stories56: Elisa Bosley - Experiencing The Miraculous is Easier Than You ThinkElisa Bosley is experiencing miracles virtually every week in what many would think is the most unlikely of places – nursing homes, memory care units and assisted living facilities. In this episode she shares how and why.
Meet Elisa:
https://www.realfaithstories.com/guests/elisabosley
Elisa's Website:
https://spiritualeldercare.com/
Find Out More About The Real Faith Stories Podcast:
http://www.RealFaithStories.com
Meet The Host Of Real Faith Stories:
http://www.BrianRobinson.coSpecial Guest: Elisa Bosley.
2021-07-1535 min
Rodger ThatSpiritual Dementia Care :: Elisa BosleyElisa Bosley is nondenominational Christian chaplain and the founder of SpiritualEldercare.com. She has more than 35 years of ministry experience in both church and parachurch settings. Her deep desire is to make it easy for anyone to provide much-needed spiritual care to loved ones with dementia. “Familiar faith rituals, words, and songs bring back hopeful, comforting long-term memories. Even those who can no longer speak or seem lost to the fog of dementia respond profoundly to old-time hymns, loving touch, eye contact, and conversation about spiritual things,” Elisa explains. “One of the most...
2021-06-0134 min
Dementia DialogueSpiritual Care: Filling their Souls- #2 in our Spirituality Series, Season 3, Episode 27Guests Elisa Bosley and Christine Thelker discuss spiritual care for people living with dementia. Elisa speaks from the voice of a chaplain’s relationship with those living with dementia and Christine from a first-person voice regarding her own spirituality and supporting others living with dementia.
The conversation focuses on how spirituality is part of every human being. It goes beyond a particular faith expression (religion) to a sense of joy, hope, comfort, assurance, safety. Unfortunately, spiritual care is often overlooked for people with dementia who live in long-term care communities, sometimes due to a lack of knowledge, tim...
2021-05-1826 min