Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322781.ch10
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Agency and Moral Relationship in Dementia

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“…It appeared that recognition of the continuity of the previous identity and agency of those with dementia could be best understood when a person was engaging in meaningful activities with the support of a carer who endeavoured to connect their relative’s past and present unique characteristics. This process, whereby carers sustained continuity of the current self of their relative, through bringing back the past self when the person was no longer able to do that alone, has been described by Jennings ( 2009 ) as “memorial personhood”.…”
Section: Key Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It appeared that recognition of the continuity of the previous identity and agency of those with dementia could be best understood when a person was engaging in meaningful activities with the support of a carer who endeavoured to connect their relative’s past and present unique characteristics. This process, whereby carers sustained continuity of the current self of their relative, through bringing back the past self when the person was no longer able to do that alone, has been described by Jennings ( 2009 ) as “memorial personhood”.…”
Section: Key Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite memory difficulties, people continue to have the desire to communicate and connect with others. Jaworska ( 1999 ) and Jennings ( 2009 ) contended that those with dementia continue to participate in “meaning-sending and meaning-receiving relationships” (p. 430) with those around them through verbal and non-verbal means, despite severe decline in cognitive functioning (semantic agency). Hence, both agency and personhood can be nurtured with a supportive person-centred caregiving environment and moral relationships in daily life.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although she underscores that this can be done in an appropriate way but also in a poor and clumsy way, she demonstrates that the attempt is crucial: we must provide care, not only by nursing, washing, looking after and being there, but also by holding on to each individual's identity. A relevant term here is semantic subject or “semantic agency” (Jennings , 11, 171), a term that elucidates the value of providing space for a person's identity, helping to reinforce and develop it, finding a way of talking, of recounting narratives and providing them with a presence. If we return to our formula for freedom, the interpretative work of these scholars might suggest that freedom as dependence is characterized by social interaction, but a specific form of interaction: holding in freedom .…”
Section: Conclusion: the Need To Retrace A Different Form Of Freedommentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In his essay on caring for people with dementia, included in this collection, Bruce Jennings (2009) describes how family members can engage with their loved ones in order to preserve what he calls “memorial personhood.” Jennings writes: “To be a memorial person is to be a self in the imagination and memory of others; which, on this view, is just what it is to be a self. It is to be a self whose identity and life must be honored and acknowledged by those who can [do so].…”
Section: Personhood As Requiring Enabling Conditionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the basis of his conception of memorial personhood, Jennings argues that both caregivers and social institutions (including public policy for long‐term care) have an obligation to provide the environment, resources, services, and human presence necessary to sustain and conserve semantic agency and memorial personhood during the course of life with dementia (Jennings 2009). Similarly, Lindemann notes that families are not the only agents responsible for holding their loved ones in personhood (Lindemann 2009).…”
Section: Blocking Developmental Pathways To Moral Personhoodmentioning
confidence: 99%