Pastor Dewey Moede: I am so very thankful for the Baptist Press! They send out so many stories of God’s Love! What a service to the Kingdom of God! Amen! This one should make you weep…….if not, check your heart.
By Diana Chandler, posted February 14, 2024 in Family
GRIFFIN, Ga. (BP) – “Therapeutic lying” was a new concept for Grady Caldwell Jr. As the primary caregiver for his wife Kathleen in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s, surely he shouldn’t allow her to believe her mother Lois, deceased for years, just visited them at home.
Caldwell, senior pastor of New Mercy Baptist Church in Griffin, Ga., tried telling Kathleen the truth when she talked of speaking with her brother, Bruce Jones, who had passed 20 years earlier.
“And she fell into a state of depression that was unbelievable. And that’s what got me to begin to walk in the truth of that term, that there is such a thing as, ‘It’s better to just lie and go along with them, than to try to get them to see the truth,’” Caldwell told Baptist Press. “It’s better to live in her reality, than to try to bring her into the reality of what’s actually going on.”
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Jim Henry, caregiver to his wife Jeanette who died of Alzheimer’s in 2019, can relate to Caldwell. The Rest of The Story Here
