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Dementia is an illness that raises necessary questions on our personal attitudes to sickness and aging. It additionally raises essential points beyond the bounds of dementia to do with how we consider ourselves as individuals - basic questions about private identity. Is the person with dementia the same individual he or she was before? Is the person with dementia a person at all? In a hanging method, dementia appears to threaten the very existence of the self. This ebook brings collectively philosophers and practitioners to discover the conceptual points that arise in reference to this increasingly common illness. Drawing on quite a lot of philosophers equivalent to Descartes, Locke, Hume, Wittgenstein, the authors explore the nature of private identity in dementia. In addition they present how the lives and selfhood of individuals with dementia might be enhanced by consideration to their psychosocial and religious environment. Throughout, the book conveys a strong moral message, arguing in favour of treating folks with dementia with all of the dignity they deserve as human beings. The ebook covers a spread of topics, stretching from speak of basic biology to speak of a spiritual understanding of individuals with dementia. Accessibly written by main figures in psychiatry and philosophy, the e book presents a singular and long overdue examination of an sickness that features in so many of our lives.
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