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Persistence of self in individuals with Alzheimer's disease
— evidence from language and visual recognition | | Author(s) | Sam Fazio, David B Mitchell |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 8, no 1, February 2009 |
| Pages | pp 39-60 |
| Source | http://www.dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Personality ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The persistence of self in individuals with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) was investigated via language and visual self-recognition. 78 adults (aged 66-103) in the Chicago area participated: 26 with mild cognitive impairments, 26 with moderate cognitive impairments, and 26 without impairment. Although frequency of language usage (during an interview) declined across impairment levels, there were no significant differences in either rates of proportions of pronoun and attribute usage. When asked to identify themselves in photographs taken with an instant camera, cognitively impaired individuals - in spite of forgetting the photographic session only minutes earlier - exhibited unimpaired self-recognition, a dissociation consistent with a preserved self. Taken together, these findings indicate a persistence of self in individuals with dementia, and have implications for how AD is characterised and experienced, and how individuals are cared for. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090304203 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: DK: 4C: 7T |
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