Gisela Webb, who teaches religious studies at Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J., used teachings from world religions when caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s, for 10 years.

At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher wrote about suffering and conversion in response to Mark Judge’s Dec. 8, 2011, column on Christopher Hitchens.

James McCartney, associate professor emeritus of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University in Rhode Island, has studied spirituality among older people.

Read a post at First Things by Wesley Smith that criticizes Mark Judge’s prediction that Christopher Hitchens would convert to Christianity.

Read a controversial column in The Daily Caller by Mark Judge reflecting on Christopher Hitchens’ final column for Vanity Fair.

Hospice chaplain Nancy Ledoux wrote “Ministering to Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders.”

Rabbi Dayle Friedman is founder and director of Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. She was a geriatric chaplain for years and now trains rabbis to work with the elderly.

Stephen Sapp is a professor and former chairman of the department of religious studies at the University of Miami, a member of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Ethics Advisory Panel and founding president of the association’s South Florida chapter. He is also past chairman of the Forum on Religion, Spirituality and Aging of the American Society on Aging. He was […]

James Ellor is a professor of social work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and editor of the Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging. His degrees are in divinity and social work, and his publications include Aging, Spirituality and Pastoral Care: A Multi-National Perspective.