Alzheimer's and related dementias create emotional difficulties for victims which interact with cognitive losses to produce the loss of self: Many behavioral difficulties of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be dealt with successfully with interventions which go beyond cognitive assistance and are aimed at treating the intrapsychic difficulties victims experience.
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Judah L. Ronch (1996) studied this question.
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