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About healthcare rights for people with cognitive impairment - Easy English Guide

This guide will help people living with cognitive impairment to get good health care. 

A person might have cognitive impairment because they have: 

  • Dementia
  • Intellectual disability
  • A brain injury

This guide tells you about: 

  • what to take with you to hospital
  • getting the right information
  • making choices about your health care
  • what healthcare staff will do

 

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About healthcare rights for people with cognitive impairment - Easy English Guide

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Publication year
2020
Resource type
Fact sheet or brochure
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