Volume 28, Number 1
July 2024
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The Person as Environmentally Integrated: Dementia, Loss, and Extended Cognition

Volume 28, Number 1, July 2024, Pages 53–82
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v28i1.3185
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Abstract

While there are urgent health-related demands surrounding dementia, there are sociopolitical dimensions to this issue that ought not to be neglected, concerning the ways in which institutions and individuals treat people living with dementia. Key among these concerns, for dementia self-advocate Christine Bryden, is the dominant narrative of dementia as a process that irreversibly sets those that live with it on a path to the destruction of their personal identities and personhood. In this paper, I bolster Bryden’s arguments against the loss narrative and develop a novel conception of personhood as a first step towards challenging it.
Copyright © 2024 Matilda Carter
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