AbstractBackgroundPerson‐centered care in dementia focuses on empowering patient’s wellbeing and quality of life. In this context, Ben Jelloun’s novel About My Mother (2016) addresses multiple issues related to social justice, hegemony, ageism, and women’s health conditions by combining literary, fictional autobiography and factual biography in a critical period of Moroccan colonial and post‐colonial history. We will study Lalla Fatma as a prototype carrying a triple burden: early traumatic events of life, weight of tradition, and Alzheimer’s disease (AD).MethodText mining was used for lexical‐semantic analysis and to develop patterns of themes across the novel’s corpora. A neurocognitive approach has been used to describe gendered aesthetics, antero‐retrograde amnesia, traumatic and bodily memory.ResultTheoretical framework from Tulving descriptions of noetic and autonoetic memory disorders have been used to classify Lalla Fatma amnesia. Alzheimer’s disease is an incentive to adopt the narrative of filiation and reconstruction that brings into life distant memories. Ben Jelloun’s novel gives the subjectivity “insight of disease” more time and space in order to express all states of memory in a stream of consciousness until its abolition. Moreover, the question of the genesis of psychogenic‐organic memory disorders through early trauma in the life of Lalla Fatma could favor a triple stress at a physiological level “a declined global health,” a microstructural level “microaggressions from her caregivers,” and macrostructural level “the trauma of the colonial past and successive widowing”.ConclusionThis study characterized AD using a mixture of fictional and factual autobiography. The anguish of successive widowing may reactivate psychic traces and an intrapsychic conflict between the desire of Lalla Fatma to preserve the lost object “body and memory” and the weight of society “culture and tradition”. The person‐centered care was successfully implemented thanks to the involvement of multiple caregivers around the main character.