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Beyond loss : dementia, identity, personhood

By Lindemann , Hilde; Brockmeier , Jens; Hydén , Lars-Christer

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
978-0-19-996926-5, 0199969264
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1789243 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
211\225
Time added
2017-06-25 19:00:00
Dementia;Alzheimer's disease;Identity (Psychology)

Description

Coming to terms with dementia is one of the great challenges of our time. This volume of new interdisciplinary essays by internationally established scholars offers new ways of understanding and dealing with it. It explores views of dementia that go beyond the idea of loss, and rather envisions it as multilayered transformation and change of personhood and identity, and as development that mostly is socially shared with others. The studies collected here identify new empirical, theoretical, and methodological areas that will be crucial to future research and clinical practice concerned with age-related dementia. Three general themes are singled out as of particular importance and interest: persons and personhood, identity and agency, and the social and the communal.

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