Prayer For Alzheimer Patients
Dear Lord,
My heart is filled with tenderness for my loved ones.
I pray that you will bring strong support for my loved ones when they have to experience me not recognizing them.
As my memory fades, help them to be comforted by the understanding that you have taken - all my love for them and all our memories - and together they have become precious treasure that you have stored in my heart.
Comfort them with the understanding that you will protect this precious treasure until it is delivered to me in my heavenly home.
Remind them that there will be a future day when we will walk together in heavenly beauty while we joyfully talk about our happy memories and our love for one another.
Amen
Dear Lord,
I feel like I am entering into a dark valley.
Show me your light.
Show me your peace.
Show me your comfort.
In Jesus' name I pray,
Amen
Dear Lord,
I feel a struggle within me.
Fear and sadness are fighting against each other for dominance this day.
My future seems so hopeless, but I remind myself that you are the God of Hope.
You still have experiences of beauty and love to sprinkle into each of my days.
During times when I feel low, I will comfort myself with thoughts of my heavenly home.
I enjoy thinking about the eternal joy and the everlasting beauty of my heavenly home.
Lord, I plan to come to you each day to help me fight the fear and subdue the sadness. And I plan to come to you to help me handle all the difficulties I encounter.
You are my Creator.
You are my Sustainer.
You are my All in All.
Amen
O God of love,
hear our prayer
for all who suffer from Alzheimer's.
In the days of changing memory,
be with them in their fears.
In the days when memory has gone,
bless their families who suffer.
Surround them with tender love
from family, friend, and stranger.
Grant them peace in their hearts,
a secure home environment,
and dignity in their lives.
May each day bring a blessing,
hope, and greater love.
Amen.
Loving God, Healer and Comforter,
we pray for those who suffer from the anxiety, ambiguity and confusion of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Look with mercy upon their distress, confusion or isolation. Shelter them where dignity and peace abound. Grant them understanding helpers and the willingness to accept help. In the face of loss of memory and control, increase their confidence in your love and strengthen their care-givers. As the Good Shepherd, tend to the sick, rest the weary, pity the afflicted, soothe the suffering and bless the dying. We make this supplication through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the name of your Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
Pray for me I was once like you.
Be kind and loving to me that's how I would have treated you.
Remember I was once someone's parent or spouse I had a life and a
dream for the future.
Speak to me, I can hear you even if I don't understand
what you are saying. Speak to me of things in my past of
which I can still relate.
Be considerate of me, my days are such a struggle.
Think of my feelings because I still have them and can feel pain.
Treat me with respect because I would have treated you that way.
Think of how I was before I got Alzheimer's; I was full of life,
I had a life, laughed and loved you.
Think of how I am now, My disease distorts my thinking, my
feelings, and my ability to respond, but I still love you even if I can't tell you.
Think about my future because I used too.
Remember I was full of hope for the future just like you are now.
Think how it would be to have things locked in your mind and
can't let them out. I need you to understand and not blame me,
but Alzheimer's.
I still need the compassion and the touching and most of all I
still need you to love me.
Keep me in your prayers because I am between life and death.
The love you give will be a blessing from God and both of us will
live forever.
How you live and what you do today will always be remembered
in the heart of the Alzheimer's Patient.
Loving God,
Please bless every mother who has Alzheimer's disease.
She was with us children as we learned to walk.
-- Guide her uncertain steps today as her balance fails her.
She taught us to cross streets and be safe.
-- Help her not to get lost, even in her familiar surroundings.
She held us close in the terrors of the darkest nightmares.
-- May she not be frightened today by the reality of her life, which is strange and totally out of her control.
She cooked thousands of meals over decades of time.
-- Please allow her to accept the caring hand that now feeds her.
She changed diapers, Lord, and served you each time she did.
-- Please give her now the humility and grace to be served in this way.
Loving God, the familiar eyes of my mother
now respond with a blank stare.
She is unable to carry on a conversation,
to ask about her family
or to serve in the central role she has had in our family.
Help her accept the surrender of her life these days.
Open her prayerful heart and fading mind
to be aware of your presence with her,
perhaps now closer than ever.
Give us, her family, the patience, courage and acceptance
to love her as she is and to support her in her daily needs.
we pray for those who suffer from the anxiety, ambiguity and confusion of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Look with mercy upon their distress, confusion or isolation. Shelter them where dignity and peace abound. Grant them understanding helpers and the willingness to accept help. In the face of loss of memory and control, increase their confidence in your love and strengthen their care-givers. As the Good Shepherd, tend to the sick, rest the weary, pity the afflicted, soothe the suffering and bless the dying. We make this supplication through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the name of your Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.