"It's You": Caregiver and Clinician Perspectives on Lucidity in People Living With Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Episodes of lucidity (ELs), or a transient return of abilities believed to be lost in people living with dementia, are a growing area of interest. These events hold important implications for care, caregiving, and our understanding of underlying etiologies. Research on ELs is largely limited to retrospective reports. The perspectives of professional and family caregivers on ELs and research approaches can inform efforts to define and study lucidity. The present study examined family caregiver and hospice clinician experiences with and perspectives on ELs in people living with dementia and observational approaches to studying these events.

Research design and methods

This exploratory, descriptive qualitative study employed semistructured interviews (

SUBMITTER: Gilmore-Bykovskyi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10091484 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature