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Lying to residents — can the truth sometimes be unhelpful for people with dementia?
Author(s)	Ian Andrew James, Ian Powell, Teri Smith
Journal title	PSIGE Newsletter, no 82, February 2003
Publisher	Psychologists' Special Interest Group in Elderly People - PSIGE, British Psychological Society, February 2003
Pages	pp 26-28
Keywords	Residents [care homes] ; Dementia ; Attitude ; Care home staff ; Questionnaires ; Pilot.
Annotation	This was a pilot study that surveyed a mixed group of 25 staff caring for people with dementia, and examined the controversial subject of staff lying to residents. An 8-item questionnaire was used to determine the occurrence, the function, and the problems associated with lying. The work was undertaken to investigate further the authors' clinical impressions that lying was a commonly used strategy in the dementia field, which indeed it was. This paper aims to focus people's attention on the issue. It was a poster presentation at the conference, "Dementia: mind, meaning and the person", held at the Newcastle Centre for Life in 2002. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030314203 A
Classmark	KX: EA: DP: QRM: 3DA: 4UC
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