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| Everyday ethics in dementia day care: narratives of crossing the line | | Author(s) | Betty Risteen Hasselkus |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 5, October 1997 |
| Pages | pp 640-649 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Day services ; Social ethics ; Personnel ; Attitude ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the ethical aspects of the experience of providing day care to people with dementia. Telephone interviews were conducted to elicit phenomenological narratives of satisfying and dissatisfying experiences from staff members of a sample of dementia day care facilities in Wisconsin. The analysis was guided by the concept of situated ethics. Findings revealed that ethical challenges of dementia day care are embodied in the everyday incidents when participants, staff, or family members' "cross the line" of acceptable behaviour. An ethical hierarchy of staff responses ranged from benign manipulation to termination of day care. The findings may be helpful in understanding the situated ethics of dementia day care, and the lived experience of dementia day care staff. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980429408 A |
| Classmark | EA: NM: TQ: QM: DP: 7T |
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