Neurological degeneration is a potent signifier molding older lives, divesting them of ‘personhood’ and making them a ‘target of care’. This article delineates the depictions of Alzheimer's and its associated losses in select Indian literary narratives- (2018) and (2019) and seeks to understand how ‘ageing into disability’ for older women has severe implications that marginalize their embodied existence, foisting a symbolic death. Through the fictional accounts, the article explores two primary threads of consideration - how the ‘selfhood’ gets eroded/reclaimed while experiencing cognitive impairment and how the shift from the patient-centric to the person-centric approach alters the relational care dynamics in the Indian context. It also attempts to situate the conception and representation of age-induced cognitive loss within the framework of critical disability studies, which understates the reductionist biomedical perspective and fosters an alternative, inclusive, and empathetic understanding of dysfunctionality.

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“被夺走”：印度文学叙事中对阿尔茨海默氏症和性别主观性的反思

神经退行性变是塑造老年人生活的有力标志，剥夺了他们的“人格”并使他们成为“护理目标”。本文描述了印度文学叙事（2018）和（2019）中对阿尔茨海默氏症及其相关损失的描述，并试图理解“老年残疾”对老年女性如何产生严重影响，边缘化她们的具体存在，强加象征性的死亡。通过虚构的叙述，本文探讨了两个主要的思考线索——在经历认知障碍时“自我”如何被侵蚀/恢复，以及从以患者为中心到以人为中心的转变如何改变印度人的关系护理动态语境。它还试图将年龄引起的认知丧失的概念和表征置于严重残疾研究的框架内，该研究低估了还原论生物医学的观点，并促进了对功能障碍的另类、包容性和同理心理解。