'Like a prison without bars': Dementia and experiences of dignity

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 881-892

  Heggestad, Anne Kari T ^a,b   Nortvedt, Per ^a,b   Slettebø, Åshild ^a,c  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Belonging; confirmation; dementia; dignity; freedom; nursing home

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMPLICATION; DEMENTIA; EMOTION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HERMENEUTICS; HUMAN; MALE; NORWAY; NURSING; NURSING HOME; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONHOOD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HERMENEUTICS; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; NURSING HOMES; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONHOOD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84890324079     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733013484484     Document Type: Article

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