As humans grow from child to adult, we do not see them as different people. We see them as a person who is simply growing up, but not becoming a completely different person. “People in the course of their lives change their tastes, their abilities, their moral qualities, the things they can remember or tend to forget, and so on, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse” (Hughes, Stephen and Steve, 58). We have all heard the expressions addressed to someone who has had a radical change, “She is a new person” or “She is no longer the same person she was” but this cannot be taken literally, “psychological changes caused by dementia, yes one might say, which have sometimes become, as time passes, particularly extensive and particularly distressing; but they do not in any way affect a person's identity in a philosophical sense, although, of course, they alter his psychological identity” (Hughes, Stephen and Steve,58). This would be the case for someone who is in the early stages of dementia as someone with a severe form that threatens the loss of their entire identity. In the case of a person suffering from dementia, it is easy to say that he has become a different person. All the changes they go through; personality change, loss of self-control and a huge memory lapse that leads them to forget their loved ones. Our identity is linked to the past and present as well as to