Selfhood in younger onset dementia: transitions and testimonies.

Recognising and supporting self in dementia: a new way to facilitate a person-centred approach to dementia care

This paper reports findings from a three-year study which integrated Kitwood’s (1997) person-centred and Sabat’s (2001) selfhood approaches in the design, fieldwork and analysis of a multi-method observational study that explored the social worlds of 14 people with dementia in continuing-care. The types of interactions that participants experienced in everyday ward life and during creative sess...

Transcending the Tragedy Discourse of Dementia: An Ethical Imperative for Promoting Selfhood, Meaningful Relationships, and Well-Being.

Supporting people living with dementia in maintaining selfhood, relationships, and well-being requires seeing beyond the common negative focus on disability. Furthermore, prioritizing the person rather than the disease requires rejecting the tragedy discourse, which is the negative lens through which dementia is typically considered. In this paper, we highlight qualitative research on dementia ...

YOUNGER-ONSET DEMENTIA An introduction to younger-onset dementia syndromes

With advances in nutrition and medicine, longer life expectancies are accompanied by an increase in the number of people affected with dementia. Contrary to common perceptions, dementia is not a single disorder, but rather is an umbrella term used to refer to a number of different clinical presentations, each of which is associated with well-defined changes in the brain. While dementia is typic...

APOE4 allele in north Indian elderly patients with dementia or late onset depression-a multiple-disease case control study

The objective of the study was to analyze the frequency of APOE4 allele in elderly patients with Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia or depression; compare these to age/sex matched controls; compare the results with established literature and highlight new findings.A single center, multiple disease, case-control study was performed with three case groups- probable AD patients (n=36), vasc...

Younger Onset Dementia: A Literature Review