An estimated 650,000 people across the UK are living with Alzheimer's disease - the majority of them at home with their families.

Written by an Anglican clergymen, who has served as a hospice chaplain and a Research Fellow within the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, this book offers practical help to ministers and church leaders in caring for those who are afflicted by this debilitating condition.

It is a hybrid of factual and spiritual, offering informed statistics and comment on where care for those suffering from dementia currently stands, along with helpful quotations both from those who have suffered and acted as carers and from inspirational writers.

The work is commended by the Bishop of Brechin of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Rev Neville Chamberlain, whose own family has been touched by the condition and who describes the work as "a mine of information and of practical suggestions - a must for every church congregation, residential home or family where there is dementia."