I was on the ward yesterday, chatting to the wife of one of the patients with whom I am currently working. It’s a difficult point for her. Her husband, Mr P,  has a fairly advanced dementia. He was admitted to hospital after displaying increasingly aggressive behaviour and his wife, who had cared for him for [...]

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