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Going home? An ethnographic study of assessment of capacity and best interests in people with dementia being discharged from hospital

BACKGROUND: A significant proportion of patients in an acute hospital is made up of older people, many of whom have cognitive impairment or dementia. Rightly or wrongly, if a degree of confusion is apparent, it is often questioned whether the person is able to return to the previous place of residen...

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Autores principales: Poole, Marie, Bond, John, Emmett, Charlotte, Greener, Helen, Louw, Stephen J, Robinson, Louise, Hughes, Julian C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24758694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-56

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