Factors Influencing Emergency Care by Persons With Dementia: Stakeholder Perceptions and Unmet Needs.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

People with dementia (PwD) frequently use emergency care services. To mitigate the disproportionately high rate of emergency care use by PwD, an understanding of contributing factors driving reliance on emergency care services and identification of feasible alternatives are needed. This study aimed to identify clinician, caregiver, and service providers' views and experiences of unmet needs leading to emergency care use among community-dwelling PwD and alternative ways of addressing these needs.

Design

Qualitative, employing semistructured interviews with clinicians, informal caregivers, and aging service providers.

Setting

Wisconsin, United States.

Participants

Informal caregivers of PwD (n = 4), emergency medicine physicians (n = 4), pri

SUBMITTER: Jacobsohn GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6458085 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature