Diverse perspectives on hospitalisation events among people with dementia: protocol for a multisite qualitative study.

The study is approved by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institutional Review Board. Informed consent procedures will incorporate steps to evaluate capacity to provide informed consent in the event that participants express concerns with thinking or memory or demonstrate challenges recalling study details during the consent process to ensure capacity to consent to participation. A series of publicly available reports, seminars and symposia will be undertaken in collaboration with collaborating organisation partners.