Health information management practices in informal caregiving: An artifacts analysis and implications for IT design.

Introduction: Unpaid informal caregivers of adult care recipients, including persons with dementia, experience multiple unmet information needs and information management challenges.

Objectives: To understand the current personal health information management (PHIM) practices in informal caregiving for adults with and without dementia.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were performed with ten informal caregivers-half of whom were caring for persons with dementia-and four formal caregivers at an adult day service.