Fluctuating Awareness and the Breakdown of the Illness Narrative in Dementia
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This interpretive phenomenological study examined how awareness of dementia symptoms fluctuates over time and circumstance, thus forcing the breakdown of the illness narrative. Five women and four men (age 64–88 years) with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (MMSE 16–23) participated in this study along with their family caregivers. In-depth interviews and participant observations were conducted with each individual and their caregiver to gather data about the person’s understanding of their symptoms. Findings illustrate how symptoms may be salient, or vague and inconspicuous; symptoms may be forgotten, or they may be entirely absent for the person. Experiencing symptoms in all of these ways means that it is difficult for people to articulate a narrative understanding of what is happening in their lives. The illness narrative of dementia becomes shared as others join in its telling, although finally it may become a narrative of chaos that is all but impossible to articulate.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it