[Tex/LaTex] Soft midrule in table

Question

3 small questions:

1) I'd like to put a soft \midrule in this table between Care type and the headers, but I'd like it to not quite reach the edge of the table: (at your discretion to mess with the layout of table )

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
%\usepckage{Something extra}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[!ht]
 \centering\makebox[\textwidth]
  {\resizebox{1.1\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabularx}{1.2\textwidth}{*6X}
 \toprule
 \multicolumn{6}{c}{Care Type} \\
 \midrule
 \vspace{3pt}
 \textbf{Direct care} & \textbf{Housekeeping} & \textbf{Mealtimes} & \textbf{Medication rounds  } & \textbf{Miscellaneous} & \textbf{Personal care} \\
 \midrule
 Blood pressure measurement & Equipment cleaning& Dispensing meals& Distributing medication&Call requests&Toiletting\\
 & &&&&\\
 Weights & Cleaning patient surfaces& &Injections&Bed making &Changing\\
 & &&&&\\
 SATs~\footnote{Blood sugar saturation}  & &&&&\\
  \bottomrule
 \end{tabularx}}}
\smallskip
 \caption{Activity type and examples of each}
 \label{tab:activities}\end{table}
\end{document}

\midrule dashed and colored in booktabs — two kinds of midrules in one booktab

2) Also is there an out-of-the box to get table footnotes in, as I don't know where mine have gone?
Footnotes tabularx-environment LaTeX

3) How to avoid the text in each cell being stretched to fill it and hence making odd hyphenations (eg. cleaning pa-tient surfaces) and or (eg. Hygiene prod-ucts)?

Answer 1

I think you are looking for \cmidrule but I also removed tabularx and the scale box commands.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepckage{Something extra}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htp]
 \centering
\begin{tabular}{{}*6{>{\hspace{0pt}\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{\dimexpr(\textwidth-10\tabcolsep)/6\relax}}@{}}
 \toprule
 \multicolumn{6}{c}{Care Type} \\
 \cmidrule(l{2em}r{2em}){1-6}
\addlinespace[2ex]
 \textbf{Direct care} & \textbf{House\-keeping} & \textbf{Meal\-times} & \textbf{Medi\-cation rounds  } & \textbf{Misc\-ellaneous} & \textbf{Personal care} \\
 \midrule
 Blood pressure measurement & Equipment cleaning& Dispensing meals& Distributing medication&Call requests&Toiletting\\
 & &&&&\\
 Weights & Cleaning patient surfaces& &Injections&Bed making &Changing\\
 & &&&&\\
 SATs~\footnote{Blood sugar saturation}  & &&&&\\
  \bottomrule
 \end{tabular}
\smallskip
 \caption{Activity type and examples of each}
 \label{tab:activities}
\end{table}

\noindent X\dotfill X
\end{document}