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An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party: Unveiling the Mystery, Inner Experience, and Gifts of Dementia ~ NEW

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
ANNOUNCING OUR NEW EDITION

An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party investigates the widely held belief that dementia is only a “mindless pathology”. Instead, the authors discover an essential, soulful, spiritual process that can be facilitated right from Alzheimer’s dementia onset.
This book provides pioneering and innovative research on the Alzheimer’s dementia pandemic, and serves as an intimate, intense, compelling beacon, shining light on the disease’s potential for deeper meaning and …

States of Altered Consciousness

States of altered consciousness in regard to palliative, aging, and end of life processes include states of forgetfulness, confusion, high drama, agitation, aggressive behavior, delirium, dementia, and other remote states. Applying Sentient Care to these states helps shed light on their mysterious nature making them more useful and less intimidating to patients, family members, friends, caregivers, and the community.
For patients and care facility residents this means the opportunity of knowing …

Training Resource ~ An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party

“Speaking as a professional psychologist, teacher, and trainer, I highly recommend An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party as an exceptional training tool not only for professionals, but also for family members, friends and caregivers.
It is exceptional because Tom and Stan have made it interactive. They do not simply present abstract psychological concepts, but develop detailed reality based personal experiences enhanced with clear concise observations, structure, and …

Nine Near Death and Coma Work Tips for Helpers and Family

Some of the tips we provide below may be useful for helpers and family who ponder what to do in end of life states. Follow these tips if they are useful, but please don’t use these suggestions as commandments.
Please value feeling skills or meta-skills (feeling attitudes that you bring with your deeply centered presence) as much as skills. (see Amy Mindell’s Coma: A Healing Journey, A Guide for Family Friends …

Mentoring

Beginning with the industrial revolution and now well into the feminist movement both men and women have been taken out of the home resulting in lost teachings and lost mentoring for all ages. We at Sentient Care have been privileged to be called upon to offer mentoring for adolescents to seniors. It is a sacred responsibility and the rewards extend from the individual to family, community and the environment for …

Coma and Remote State Directive

The COMA AND REMOTE STATE DIRECTIVE is a legal document; an advance directive, also known as a living will. The intention of this document is to implement your wishes if you are ever concerned with communication and decision making durIng confusion, delirium, stupor, coma, vegetative state, depression, catatonia, dementia, and other remote states of altered consciousness.
This document helps ensure that you receive verbal and nonverbal support for your awareness of …

Eldership: A Celebration

How to inspire stories, blessings, sacred space, dreams, beauty, and spiritual experiences ~ the treasures of eldership ~ from our seniors, many of whom are “stuck” in states of confusion, memory loss, high drama, delusion, delirium, dementia, Alzheimer’s, end of life processes, and even coma. They too often lack the awareness and communication skills needed to fluidly bring out their wisdom, experience, and treasures which are sorely need in our …

Words of appreciation

“He visitado su sitio y lo encuentro excelente. Soy medico especialista en Gerontologia y Geriatria. En estos momentos estoy tratando de verticalizarme en le tema de los trastornos cognitivos, en especifico las dementias. Su sitio web me es de gran utilidad.
Sin mas, agradecida.”
DRA. NIURKA CASCUDO
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“Thanks, Tom,  for your precious work and love and sensitivity working with people at the ends of life in situations where normally they are …

Tom Richards

Tom Richards evolved from a corporate executive (BS in electrical engineering, Cornell University; MBA in marketing, University of Chicago; and CPA, University of Illinois) to a researcher, author, educator, publisher, and independent sentient care consultant, working with senior health issues, patient advocacy, and people in deep inner states of consciousness. He has studied, researched, and applied Process Work for the past twenty years. Tom uses his awareness abilities to follow …

Ann Jacob and Stan Tomandl

Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD (Process Work Diplomate) and Ann Jacob, BA Ed, of Coma Communication and Process Oriented Facilitation, have specialized for over 20 years in working with, researching, and teaching about people in altered consciousness: illness, dementia, traumatic brain injury, coma, grief, and other fragile and strong times in our living and dying. They are instructor and student under the mentorship of Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell at the …