Beyond loss : dementia, identity, personhood / edited by Lars-Christer Hydén, Hilde Lindemann, and Jens Brockmeier.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

ix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Second nature and the tragedy of Alzheimer's / Hilde Lindemann -- The person with dementia as understood through Stern's critical personalism / Steven R. Sabat -- Dignity and dementia / Lennart Nordenfelt -- "I'm his wife not his carer!" -- dignity and couplehood in dementia that the relationship / Ingrid Hellström -- Questions of meaning : identity, memory, and dementia / Jens Brockmeier -- Everyday dramas : comparing life with dementia and acquired brain injury / Maria I. Medved -- Body and self in dementia / Pia Kontos -- As the body speaks : creative activity in dementia / Alison Phinney -- Narrative collaboration and scaffolding in dementia / Lars C. Hydén -- Supporting a co-conversationalist with dementia : the case of questions / Camilla Lindholm -- 'Familyhood' and early onset dementia : using narrative and biography to plot longitudinal adjustment to the diagnosis / Pamela Roach, John Keady & Penny Bee -- In battle with time : agency and control in a self-help group for persons with dementia / Linda Örulv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.