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Recognising the agency of people with dementia

Geraldine BoyleCentre for Applied Social Research, University of Bradford, Bradford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1130-1144 | Received 02 Aug 2013, Accepted 26 Mar 2014, Published online: 12 May 2014

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