LA SIGNIFICATION SOCIALE DE LA MALADIE DE TYPE ALZHEIMER: VALORISER LA PERSONNE ATTEINTE
Keywords:
Alzheimer’s disease, “the hierarchy of credibility”, real age and felt age, the “disease’s management”, the “patient’s work”, strategies of adaption, the “disease’s normalization”, the “disease – career”.Abstract
Considering that the modern society faces an increase of the number of people suffering from Alzheimer disease, the understanding of the experience that the patients go through becomes more and more necessary. According to the perspective of H. Becker, the patient’s confession may lead to a new “hierarchy of credibility”.The person suffering from Alzheimer is an active part of his treatment. It takes a lot of personal control power in order to be able to live with the disease and the limits that it imposes. We will trully understand the real meaning of Alzheimer only after we listen with empathy the confession of a patient and after we believe every word of it. By recognizing the people affected by this disease, we discover another side of this malady, one that it’s considered to be terrible, different from the one presented by politic actors, medical professionals, members of the family.References
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