A very interesting article appears at The Tangled Neuron, Does Memory Loss Mean Loss of Self?.  Here we encounter the story of Don Moyer and his wife Jenny Knauss who dispute the fact that the Alzheimer’s patient loses the complete loss of self.  They go on to show that person has usefulness and value.  (Jenny has Alzheimer’s.)   Don and Jenny operate a social networking site, Alzheimer’s Spoken Here, for people with Alzheimer’s and related diseases and are writing a paper, with Renee Beard of the University of Illinois at Chicago, on this topic.
It also bears out what I discovered with Mother and Auntie…even though …read more