Holding on while letting go: trauma and growth on the pathway of dementia care in familiesFootnote^†

† The first author supervised this project, and jointly developed the design with the third author. Both first and second authors were the independent auditors who robustly debated the final thematic analysis and write-up of the results and paper. The third author recruited the participants, conducted the interviews, and transcribed the data.

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