EAN: 9783319830469

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND MEDI...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This is the first book-length exploration
of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the
last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person patient accounts from
different languages and a range of media  focusing on the poetical and political questions
these narratives raise: what images do narrators appropriate  what narrative plot do they adapt
and how do they draw on established strategies of life-writing. It also analyses how these
accounts engage with the culturally dominant Alzheimer's narrative that centres on dependence
and vulnerability  and addresses how they relate to discourses of gender and aging. Linking
literary scholarship to the medico-scientific understanding of dementia as a neurodegenerative
condition  this book argues that  first  patients' articulations must be made central to
dementia discourse and second  committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support
systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging 
dementia  and Alzheimer's patients.

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