Sustainability of community-based interventions for people affected by dementia: a protocol for the SCI-Dem realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With numbers set to increase globally, finding ways to better support people with dementia and their families is a matter of growing concern. Community-based interventions can play a key role in supporting people with early to moderate stage dementia postdiagnosis, helping delay decline and hospitalisation. However, provision of such interventions is fragmented, with significant gaps and no reliable funding model, hence innovative groups and schemes catering for a genuine need can struggle long term and frequently fold.

Methods and analysis

This realist review aims to expand our understanding of how best to implement and facilitate community-based interventions to run sustainably, focusing on contextually relevant explanations. We will gather and synthesise lite

SUBMITTER: Morton T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661558 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature