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Eliciting user perspectives on what works — commentary
Author(s)	Charles J Murphy
Corporate Author	"What Works in Dementia Care" Symposium, Stirling, 1998
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 2 [Proceedings of the symposium held in Scotland, June 1998, Part 1], February 1999
Pages	pp 131-133
Keywords	Dementia ; Cognitive impairment ; Management [care] ; Consumer ; Methodology ; Interviewing.
Annotation	Murphy's commentary on the paper by Stalker et al relates to his involvement in three evaluation studies eliciting user perspectives. From a practitioner point of view, their paper is significant for undermining the assumption, previously widely held, that eliciting the perspective of service users who have dementia on what works for them is not possible. Murphy's experience is that those with dementia are more in a position to comment on the process rather than the outcomes of services they receive - that is, there is little difference between them and other service users. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990825233 A
Classmark	EA: E4: QA: WY: 3D: 3DL
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