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Ignorance is bliss?
— Ethics of withholding information | | Author(s) | Oliver O'Mara |
| Journal title | FPOP Newsletter, no 122, January 2013 |
| Publisher | British Psychological Society, January 2013 |
| Pages | pp 69-74 |
| Source | www.bps.org.uk |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Information needs ; Social ethics ; Rights [elderly]. |
| Annotation | This short essay highlights some of the dynamics that can occur in ethical decision-making with older people. To illustrate a course of action that might be taken, the author uses a fictitious example of an older man with dementia whose partner had died a year before. The hope is that informed, objective decisions are being made about individual cases, and removing or at least noticing a person's feelings from the situation. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics report, 'Dementia: ethical issues' (2009) highlights differences of opinions about whether being truthful or telling white lies are adopted as a course of action. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130322218 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: UV:IK: TQ: IKR |
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