Vascular cognitive impairment: When memory loss is not the biggest challenge.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Vascular cognitive impairment is the second most common type of cognitive impairment. Care needs of community-dwelling people with vascular cognitive impairment and their caregivers have not been thoroughly studied. Therefore, we aimed to explore care needs of people with vascular cognitive impairment and their family caregivers.

Design

A qualitative interview study.

Setting and participants

Participants were purposefully sampled community-dwelling people with vascular cognitive impairment and their family caregivers.

Methods

Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Analysis and data collection followed an iterative process, until data saturation was achieved. We conducted 18 interviews (nine people with vascular cognitive impairment and

SUBMITTER: van de Schraaf SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798009 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature