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

• Main Authors: Sofie Smedegaard Skov (Author), Anja M.B. Jensen (Author), Gitte Rasmussen (Author), Anna Paldam Folker (Author), Sigurd Lauridsen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...