Table 3.

Quotes illustrating theme 1

Quote	Views and experiences of dementia case finding
1	I think someone did come to see him but they didn’t see me. (Carer 16)
2	I don’t think that was on his release papers neither ’cos they usually put things that he’s had done on his release papers. (Carer 04)
3	Didn’t worry me one bit. (Patient 21)
4	…if there’s no medication or they’re not going to put you on treatment what’s the point. That’s my view. (Carer 03)
5	I thought it very inappropriate when somebody’s in and they’re feeling really rough, their breathing is dreadful, full of pneumonia and all the rest of it (Carer 08)
6	at two o’clock in the morning… We’d been in A&E for hours…They decided that Dad should stay because he had an infection, and they gave him the memory test…I remember saying, ‘You are having a laugh’. (Carer 26)
7	you feel as though they’re encroaching on your brain to try and make you make a mistake, that’s how I felt. (Patient 05)
8	[about the test] …he was shattered, and I think he was frightened. (Carer 26)
9	I would have thought that if there were to be any benefit gained it would be once the patient is stable. At admission, everything’s frightening, worrying, they don’t know what they’re there for maybe or they’re worried about what they’re there for. (Carer 23)
10	I explained it, she’s more aware at home, I explained how bad she was in hospital to how different she is at home. (Carer 02)
11	…doctor came in and she asked [patient] some questions and of course [patient] just doesn’t always understand because it’s the comprehension isn’t it, cognitive as well, and so [patient] said, ‘ask my wife’, and she said, ‘I am asking you’ [said in an abrupt manner] which made me prickle so I said, ‘well, [patient]’s dysphasic and you know, he does have difficulty…and I was really cross about that, I thought time and place’. (Carer 08)
12	Well I was a little bit confused really over the whole thing, you know, well I think the family were really. (Carer 01)
13	I think they were just telling me that I had to get her to the doctors, to organise the Memory Clinic, I’m sure that’s what it was, they were telling me, but it wasn’t really clear, like I’m saying, I think she should have been sent home with some paperwork to say right, this is what is needed. (Carer 02)
14	they changed her medication and they stopped that, so there must have been a reason for stopping it…but they didn’t tell us, we had no way of knowing until three months later, which I think is frightening. (Carer 23)
15	they were in a rush to get her out because she didn’t need any more treatment, albeit she was discharged taking an antibiotic and there was no indication what the antibiotic was for, or anything on the, it wasn’t included on the medications list. (Carer 07)