Chapter 52
Web Book: Heroic Stories of Dementia Care: Grandchildren as Caregivers and Fallacies of Care.
Annette Leibing

This chapter explores the cultural construction dementia set in the country of Brazil and focuses on heroic tales of grandchildren acting as caregivers. This work uses these stories to provide a critical perspective on the “personhood” approach to dementia as applied to this country and asserts that the stories may in fact reflect fallacies of care.