Mittal, Rakhi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6114-8533
Tan, Kai Soo
Wong, Mun Loke
Allen, Patrick Finbarr
Article History
Received: 1 September 2020
Accepted: 24 January 2021
First Online: 4 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for this study was granted by the National University of Singapore—Institutional Review Board (NUS-IRB Reference code: H-17-047) on 12 October 2017. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants after the objectives and procedures of the research were fully explained to them by a member of the research team. Participants were informed that they could withdraw from the research at any time without giving any reasons. Participants with dementia were asked to invite their legally acceptable representatives to the consent-taking process and data collection. The research team ascertained that the person making a decision on behalf of the participant with dementia, was acting in the best interest of the participant and took into account the participant’s concerns and desires.
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: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.