Summary Of The Disremembered By Charles Leadbeater

In Charles Leadbeater’s article “The Disremembered,” he explains what makes up one’s identity. His way of doing so is through the struggle of dementia patients and their caregivers. He begins by defining Dementia and giving examples of struggles they would have, such as not remembering their loved ones or repeating simple tasks, like putting the milk in the refrigerator, because simply forgot they have already used it (2). Next, Leadbeater talks of the way society splits up patients and caregivers, into groups of good memory and bad memory. He claims that memory-based learning is the go to way to treat and heal dementia patients, but Leadbeater also expresses a different way for the cure (4-5). Leading up to his claim he start off explaining