Quelles sont les traces d'esprit dans un corps qui se délite chez les personnes atteintes de maladie d'Alzheimer ?

Alzheimer patients are generally viewed as “demented”, in other words deprived of mind. Their cognitive functions gradually decline, and alongside their bodies become weaker. Yet when caregivers take the trouble to gain access to these individuals, the discourse that emerges is clearly “mindful”. In the midst of this confusion of time and place, how can we capture the traces of their living memory, and their bodily experience? We opted to have these individuals make drawings of themselves so as to objectify the traces of mind in bodies that are deteriorating. This paper describes this process in an ethical approach to the other.