Abstract
Because our culture so values rationality and productivity, observers easily characterize the life of the person with dementia in the bleakest terms because it lacks sociocultural worth. The experience of the person with irreversible and progressive dementia is clearly tragic, but it need not be interpreted as half empty rather than half full.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 37-63 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Journal of religion, disability & health |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Alzheimer’s
- dementia
- personhood
- Bonhoeffer
- memory
- theology
- faith