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- A study examined how individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) envision their future selves compared to healthy individuals by asking them to create "I-will-be" statements.
- Results showed that AD patients produced fewer statements overall, indicating a weakened ability to form future self-concepts.
- The analysis revealed AD patients focused more on self-cessation (ideas about death) and had significantly fewer statements related to their physical, social, and psychological selves compared to healthy controls.
Article Abstract
We assessed how Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients would imagine their self in the future. AD patients and healthy controls were asked to generate statements beginning with "I-will-be" to describe how they saw themselves or how they wished to be in the future. These statements were analyzed in terms of four self-dimensions, i.e., physical self, social self, psychological self and self-cessation. The latter was investigated to assess how AD patients processed the idea of their own mortality. Findings demonstrated fewer total "I-will-be" statements in AD participants than in controls, suggesting that the construction of future self-concepts becomes weaker in the disease. Our results also demonstrated fewer statements related to the physical-self, the social-self and the psychological-self, and more statements related to self-cessation in AD participants than in controls. These findings suggest that AD patients are highly preoccupied by the idea of death when thinking about the future of their self.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.04.016 | DOI Listing |
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