This collection of interdisciplinary essays by international researchers tries to see beyond the loss in dementia, exploring it as transformation and change of personhood and identity that typically is embedded in social life. The chapters identify three important themes: persons and personhood, identity and agency, and the social and the communal.
Fortunately, the cumulative effect of reading this volume is clarified insight into the needs and personhood of persons with dementia, and a new appreciation of what family-centered clinical research on dementia hopes to accomplish.