Sustaining community-based interventions for people affected by dementia long term: the SCI-Dem realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Community-based support for people with earlier-stage dementia and their care partners, such as regularly meeting groups and activities, can play an important part in postdiagnostic care. Typically delivered piecemeal in the UK, by a variety of agencies with inconsistent funding, provision is fragmented and many such interventions struggle to continue after only a short start-up period. This realist review investigates what can promote or hinder such interventions in being able to sustain long term.

Methods

Key sources of evidence were gathered using formal searches of electronic databases and grey literature, together with informal search methods such as citation tracking. No restrictions were made on article type or study design; only data pertaining to regularl

SUBMITTER: Morton T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8264885 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature