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Caregivers

‘It was just – everything was normal’: outcomes for people living with dementia, their unpaid carers, and paid carers in a Shared Lives day support service

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Pages 1282-1290 | Received 22 Mar 2022, Accepted 29 Jun 2022, Published online: 18 Jul 2022

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