Supporting people with dementia to live at home

Affiliations

¹ NIHR Policy Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King's College London, London, UK. monica.leverton@kcl.ac.uk.
² School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Editorial

Monica Leverton et al. BMC Geriatr. 2023.

. 2023 Oct 19;23(1):681.

doi: 10.1186/s12877-023-04389-w.

¹ NIHR Policy Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, King's College London, London, UK. monica.leverton@kcl.ac.uk.
² School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

PK and ML are Guest Editors of the Collection ‘Living at home with dementia’ and editorial board members of BMC Geriatrics.

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