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Received: 15 August 2018

Accepted: 7 January 2019

First Online: 19 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Research ethics approval was obtained from the National Research Ethics Committee North West – GM West, 16/08/2016, ref.: 16/NW/0552. Research participants provided written consent to participate in the research study prior to data collection.

: All research participants gave written consent, prior to data collection, for the research team to publish data they provided - only once anonymised - in subsequent outputs.

: Mr. Peter Bullock is Chief Executive of AgeUK North Staffordshire.Professor Carolyn Chew Graham is a member of the editorial board (Section Editor) for this journal.

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