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People with dementia who are in hospital may refuse food, drink or attempts of examination. This represents a challenge in providing high-quality and person-centered care. The way of phrasing, the tone and construction of the question by health professionals affects the likeliness of the refusal. Successful requests are often forms of encouraging, suggesting, describing the reasons behind the task needing to be performed. Professionals can be trained to have effective communication strategies to deal with refusal.

https://doi.org/10.3310%2Falert_43178

https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.socscimed.2020.113188

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helm/dev-test/dementia_and_requests/page_one.html