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When dementia disrupts inherited prayer traditions

I pray the same prayers my mother taught me but now that she has dementia and doesn't remember them I wonder if I'm keeping something alive or just talking to myself.

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What we've seen

The continuity of spiritual practice becomes questioned when the person who transmitted it loses their own connection to its meaning.

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