A reply to 'The 'demented other' or simply 'a person'? Extending the philosophical discourse of Naue and Kroll through the situated self' by John Keady, Steven Sabat, Ann Johnson, and Caroline Swarbrick.

This article responds to comments about their paper "The Demented Other: Identity and Difference in Dementia" that was published in the journal "Nursing Philosophy." It recalls that the paper examined the impact of the concepts of identity and difference in patients with dementia. It suggests to understand the paper in terms of a socio-political discourse.