Gaining access to unspoken narratives of people living with dementia on a hospital ward—A new methodology

This is a methodological paper that aims to advance the conceptualisation of participatory research by focusing on the value of capturing and understanding movement as a vital means of communication for older people with dementia in a general hospital ward. Qualitative research involving people with dementia tends to be word‐based and reliant upon verbal fluency. This article considers a method for capturing and understanding movement as a vital means of communication.

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