Resistant behaviour in dementia might be due to hearing loss

Cook and colleagues summarise many deficiencies in the care of people with dementia but do not mention hearing loss or deafness.1

How can I follow instructions if I can’t hear what you are saying? In the paper they summarise, by Featherstone et al, resistant behaviour is discussed as though it is a failure on the part of the patient.2 In my experience, the failure is often that the …