Digital Support Platform: a qualitative research study investigating the feasibility of an internet-based, postdiagnostic support platform for families living with dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To establish the feasibility of the Digital Support Platform (DSP), an internet-based, postdiagnostic tool designed for families living with a diagnosis of dementia.

Design

Qualitative methods using normalisation process theory as an analysis framework for semistructured interview transcriptions.

Setting

A community care setting in the South-East Scotland.

Participants

We interviewed 10 dyads of people with Alzheimer's, vascular or mixed dementia (PWD), and their family carers, who had been given and had used the DSP for at least 2 months.

Results

Our analysis revealed that the DSP was predominantly understood and used by the carers rather than PWD, and was used alongside tools and methods they already used to care for their relative. The DSP

SUBMITTER: Killin LOJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898353 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature