Patients with dementia need social supports and opportunities and acceptance of their disability in order to feel hopeful despite their functional decline.
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Students more familiar with the quantifiable knowledge taught in medical and premedical curricula become aware that this perspective is not the only or even the most comprehensive way to see health, illness, and healing.