RT Article
T1 Wisdom and/or Dementia: Is This the Choice American Society Is Mired In?
JF Interpretation
VO 68
IS 2
SP 122
OP 135
A1 Gullette, Margaret Morganroth 1941-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776981111
AB Using the socially-constructed binary between wisdom and cognitive impairment as its case study, this essay tries to break this binary, first by describing and contextualizing the situation of the author’s mother in her 90s. Dangers to American well-being in general include failures of medical assessment and caregiving, and, not least, problems maintaining the crucial traditional link between old age and wisdom. Hope resides in viewing minds differently, restoring respect to elders, and recognizing wisdom wherever found.
K1 Wisdom Literature
K1 Wisdom
K1 Multiple intelligences
K1 MEMORY loss
K1 Dementia
K1 Collaborative intelligence
K1 Cognitive impairment
K1 Alzheimer’s
K1 Ageism
DO 10.1177/0020964313518180