What does the dementia journey actually look like from inside a marriage, a family, and a church?
Six caregivers sat down with us at our Alzheimer's and Dementia seminar, held February 21, 2026 at McGregor Baptist Church, and this episode gathers their voices in one place. Karen, caring for her husband Steve for seventeen years. A husband caring for his wife Celeste in her fifth year. A husband walking with his wife Sally through four years of the disease. A daughter who cared for her mom Darlene for a decade. A husband caring for his wife Bunny. And a wife caring for her husband Jim.
Their stories carry real honesty about the first two transition years, the roller coaster of daily care, the shame that keeps families silent, and the moments of unexpected grace, including the day a life group brought the wrong neighbor home from Bible study. Every voice comes back to the same place: they could not do this without the church, and they could not do this without Christ.
McGregor Dementia Podcast provides relevant resources to those currently walking the dementia journey with their loved ones.
If these stories sound like your life, we would be honored to walk it with you. Our caregiver support group is waiting at https://mcgregor.net/dementia/
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23 Apr 2026
Q&A Panel with Dr. Ed Shaw, Dr. Benjamin Mast, and Cynthia Perth Hughes
What do you actually do when the person you love becomes aggressive, when family refuses to talk about the diagnosis, or when you want to know your own genetic risk?
Dr. Ed Shaw, Dr. Benjamin Mast, and elder care strategist Cynthia Perth Hughes take questions from the room in this live panel from our Alzheimer's and Dementia seminar, recorded February 21, 2026 at McGregor Baptist Church. The panel addresses how to respond to aggressive behavior, why some families avoid talking about dementia, what genetic testing involves, the difference between Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia, how exercise affects risk, and what late-stage dementia actually looks like.
The conversation pulls together the day's teaching into real answers for real families, with honesty about what we know, what we do not yet know, and where hope is found even now.
McGregor Dementia Podcast provides relevant resources to those currently walking the dementia journey with their loved ones.
If one of these questions is yours, you are not alone with it. Bring it to our caregiver support group and find others asking the same thing. Details at https://mcgregor.net/dementia/
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23 Apr 2026
We Are Here to Help. How Can You Best Serve Caregivers?
The person caring for a loved one with dementia is carrying a burden that rarely gets noticed. How does the church come alongside them well?
David and Tamar Miller answer that question out of their own four and a half years caring for David's father through dementia, alongside parenting their son Carson, who lives with autism. David serves as Pastor of Membership and Missions at McGregor. Their breakout from our Alzheimer's and Dementia seminar, recorded February 21, 2026 at McGregor Baptist Church, walks through four components of serving a caregiver well: understanding the challenge, being informed of the concerns, recognizing the crisis of faith that often comes, and offering constructive help.
They ground the whole conversation in John 19, where Jesus assigns John the care of His own mother, and in the promise of Proverbs 3:5 to 6, that God will make straight the paths of those who trust Him.
McGregor Dementia Podcast provides relevant resources to those currently walking the dementia journey with their loved ones.
If God is stirring you to serve a caregiver in your life, start with the people already doing it. Our caregiver support group welcomes helpers, not just caregivers. Say hello at https://mcgregor.net/dementia/
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