Compassionate deception: An ethnographic study of how and why health professionals and family members lie when caring for people with dementia in Danish nursing homes

This article uses the concept of compassionate deception to understand the complexity and duality at stake when health professionals and family members lie when caring for people with dementia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two Danish nursing homes, we argue that compassionate deception conce...

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Main Authors: Sofie Smedegaard Skov, Anja M.B. Jensen, Gitte Rasmussen, Anna Paldam Folker, Sigurd Lauridsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321524000660
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