Individuals with dementia suffer from deficits in memory, language and other abilities. These malfunctions affect social functioning such as the ability to uphold a conversation, decline in mental awareness and withdrawal from social activities. Social isolation is also one of the side effects of dementia. As a result of dementia, individuals play fewer social roles and they hardly engage in satisfying social interactions. At first dementia attacks the memory center of the brain and then continues to other areas which are responsible for language, vision, movement and judgment. Eventually dementia causes losses in recent memory, period of mental confusions, reduced ability to assess risks, hallucinations, depression and insomnia. Since cognitive abilities play a major role in our society, individuals with such disability find themselves in a difficult situation as they are cast aside and suffer from variety of stereotypes. Another human aspect that is hurt as a result of dementia is identity. The meaning of identity is a set of beliefs that an individual holds about him or herself. An individual who suffers from dementia loses his core self. He does not feel that he belongs to a certain group or that company plays a significant role in his life.
(Ryan,2009) Literature that deals with disability deals mainly on the depiction of individual characters in the narratives. Those literary pieces discuss on the representation of the human body and connect deterioration of the body to moral disability. (Berbue,2005)
