Dementia patients not allowed to use toilet Dr Katie Featherstone, from the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory, at the University of West London, observed the continence care of dementia patients in three hospitals in England and Wales over the course a year for a study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
She found patients who were not helped to go to the toilet and instead left to wet and soil themselves. BBC News
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