Hits home in several ways: Valorizing dementia as a higher - TopicsExpress



          

Hits home in several ways: Valorizing dementia as a higher state of being may strike many people as bizarre, and such sentiments are unlikely to comfort the children or partners of people who must endure living in a state of almost perpetual confusion. Yet our society does tend to prize cognition and executive function at the expense of other essential human qualities: sensuality, pleasure, intimacy. For people who can no longer think clearly, a life of small sensory pleasures is a considerable achievement.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:26:39 +0000

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