How healthcare professionals in acute settings construct identities for people with dementia.

Background: Healthcare professionals working in acute settings lack education and training in dementia care, resulting in people living with dementia receiving a reduced quality of care. Discourses are ways of communicating through written and spoken language, and healthcare professionals often adopt ageist discourses when constructing the identities of people living with dementia.

Aim: To explore how healthcare professionals working in acute settings construct the identities of people living with dementia.