The lucidity in dementia experience: perspectives from family and professional caregivers.

Background: Family and professional caregivers of individuals with dementia often witness care-receiver's lucidity events.

Objective: A qualitative data analysis was performed of documented family and professional caregivers' experiences and their respective appraisals of lucidity events.

Research Design And Methods: Using a reduction method of selection, data from 10 in-home family caregivers and 20 professional caregivers to long-term care residents was content-coded and analysed.

Unexpected lucidity in dementia: application of qualitative methods to develop an informant-reported lucidity measure.

Objectives: Unexpected lucidity is a phenomenon of scientific, clinical, and psychological relevance to health professionals, to those who experience it, and their relatives. This paper describes qualitative methods used to develop an informant-based measure of lucidity episodes.

Methods: The approach was refinement of the operationalization of the construct; review of seminal items, modification, and purification; and confirmation of the feasibility of reporting methodology.