Anthropology of dementias
a review from Alzheimer’s disease
Keywords:
Alzheimer’s disease, caring, treating, socializing, researchingAbstract
The article analyses ethnographies and qualitative studies on the dementia phenomenon. The Alzheimer’s disease has centrality in this field and for this reason the article returns to its history, classics and ongoing controversies about the disease, treatments and ways of caring, studying and relating to people with dementia. The dementia field has ques-tioned concepts and methodological approaches in the social sciences, and transformed care, treating and medication of old age around the world, but it is still little known in Brazil. Also, literature reviews that systematize what was produced and point to contemporary research agendas are rare.
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