Mitchell, Gail JoyceDupuis, Sherry L.Kontos, Pia2017-04-202017-04-202013-06-12http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5222rn5http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11685This work, first published in Journal of Applied Hermeneutics is made available here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Original article available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy5222rn5The authors revisit the troubling discourse surrounding the diagnosis of dementia. A critique of the predominant words and images in health care literature, public discourse, and policy is considered from multiple angles. The authors link the dominant words and images with a form of inter-relational violence. Contrary images grounded in research and experience offer a different view of what it is like to live with a diagnosis of dementia—a view that is life-affirming and based in relationality and possibility. Concepts of embodied selfhood and knowing other-wise are portrayed as doorways to transforming a discourse of violence toward a discourse of compassion and ethical relating.enAttribution 3.0 UnportedDementia DiscourseSufferingEmbodied SelfhoodKnowing Other-WiseHermeneuticsArticle