Power, ethics, and person-centred care: using ethnography
to examine the everyday practices of unregistered dementia
care staff

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Power, ethics, and person-centred care: using ethnography to examine the everyday practices of unregistered dementia care staff

The social positioning and treatment of persons with dementia reflects dominant biomedical discourses of progressive and inevitable loss of insight, capacity, and personality. Proponents of person-centred care, by contrast, suggest that such loss can be mitigated within environments that preserve ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Scales, Kezia, Bailey, Simon, Schneider, Justine M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Blackwell Publishing 2017
Subjects:	ethnography care work dementia Foucault nursing empowerment
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37374/

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