This title is apt, for many in the early stages of dementia feel they are entering strange uncharted territory; an analogy of how the Hebrews of the Old Testament exiled in Babylonia felt and sang of so plaintively In Psalm 137; 'How shall we sing the Lord's song...?'

The author, whose experience includes parish ministry, university and hospice chaplaincy and as a research fellow within the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, helps us to chart this extensive territory. Describing dementia as a 'growth industry', which is still in its infancy as regards our understanding and the provision of appropriate services, he begins with 'an opportunity offered and a challenge set' to local churches.

Two forms of service are given as appendices, one to be used on admittance to a nursing home and another as a service of remembrance and thanksgiving for friends and family of people with dementia in residential care, A third appendix gives a model letter of agreement between a church and a nursing home, So as Individuals, MU branches and churches there is much we can all do to help people with dementia and not least to 'sing the Lord's song' and to sing along with them.

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