Community-Based Service Providers' Experiences With Activities for Persons With Dementia.

Persons with dementia (PWD) benefit from participating in meaningful activities. This study's objective was to learn the characteristics of successful meaningful activities from community-based service providers who work with PWD. Six group interviews were performed with 15 unique professionals from an adult day service or community-based coordinated care program.

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.