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Understanding the self of people with dementia
Hutmacher, F. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2020 · Heft 3 · S. 161 bis 166
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Brief introductionWe do not like to think of our life as an accumulation of random, unrelated events. Rather, we want our life to be a meaningfully evolving story that we can tell others, as well as ourselves; however, the ability to tell stories about one’s own life and to perceive one’s own life as a coherent story is dramatically decreased in people with dementia, especially in the later stages of the disease. If the notion of having a self is intimately linked with being able to create and maintain a life narrative, and if people with dementia tend to lose this ability, what kind of self do people with demen…
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Demenz
Selbst
Lebensgeschichte
Gedächtnis
Sprache
Identität
Erzählung
Krankheitsverlauf
Fragmentierung
narrative Identität
kognitive Beeinträchtigung
Dementia
Self-Concept
Narrative
Memory Disorders
Language Disorders
