Refusal and resistance to care by people living with dementia being cared for within acute hospital wards: an ethnographic study

• Main Authors: Katie Featherstone (Author), Andy Northcott (Author), Jane Harden (Author), Karen Harrison Denning (Author), Rosie Tope (Author), Sue Bale (Author), Jackie Bridges (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: National Institute for Health Research, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The acute hospital setting has become a key site of care for people living with dementia. The Department of Health and Social Care recognises that as many as one in four acute hospital beds in the UK will be occupied by a person living with dementia at any given time. However, people liv...