The purpose of this study is to understand holistically the life of a person with dementia in the novel Still Alice from her perspective. Therefore, the novel text was analyzed using the hermeneutic case reconstruction method. As a result, in the life of Alice, the novel’s protagonist, the years before, during, and after her dementia diagnosis are turning points, and the regularity that runs through her life is the ‘agency’ struggling to take control of her life despite being in difficult situations. Before her dementia diagnosis, she lived as a ‘superwoman’ who struggled to construct the ‘perfect family’ as a professor, wife, and mother, but also as a daughter in a dysfunctional family. Immediately before and after her dementia diagnosis, her ‘superwoman’ life was left in crisis: she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and couldn’t agree with it; she lived with suicidal thoughts for fear of losing her husband’s love and her job; and she lived with resentment, remorse, and fear of inheriting the disease. But she lived also in preparation for when she became severely demented. Since her dementia diagnosis, she has been transformed into a person living with dementia. Despite of this, she struggled to maintain her ‘agency’ and a life still be ‘herself’. Ultimately, the person with dementia in Still Alice became a ‘person living with dementia’, but she was still lived as ‘herself’. Therefore, based on these findings, some implications for social welfare practice were discussed and suggested.