To experience or even contemplate dementia raises some of the most profound questions: What does it mean to be a person? How does someone find meaning in life while facing progressive neurological deterioration? What do health care providers, or residents of a neighborhood, or citizens of aging societies, owe to people living with dementia, and why? And how do shared ideas and values – narratives – that circulate within societies and groups shape the experience of living with dementia, for better or worse?
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