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Article Dans Une Revue Geriatric Nursing Année : 2022

“Who will I be?”: The future of the self as described by Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients

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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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hal-04257993 , version 1 (25-10-2023)
hal-04257993 , version 2 (30-05-2024)

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Mohamad El Haj, Philippe Allain, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Guillaume Chapelet, Pascal Antoine, et al.. “Who will I be?”: The future of the self as described by Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Geriatric Nursing, 2022, 46, pp.1-6. ⟨10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.04.016⟩. ⟨hal-04257993v2⟩
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