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Mr Js Story.• Mr Js wife admitted to hospital from a Nursing home. History ofDementia but Mr J and he’s s wife spent time together every daysand enjoyed each others company.• Asked to wait in the waiting room of A&E. He was forgottenabout and it was only when Mrs J had died that the staff rangthe nursing home to be reminded that Mr J was actually at thehospital.• Decision made not to resuscitate with no discussion with herhusband.‘They let her slip away under the cloak of “quality of life”without stopping to think of any other involved party’• Mr J felt the hospital had denied them the chance to betogether in the