Needs of patients with dementia and their caregivers in primary care: lessons learned from the Alzheimer plan of Quebec.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons living with dementia have various health and social care needs and expectations, some which are not fully met by health providers, including primary care clinicians. The Quebec Alzheimer plan, implemented in 2014, aimed to cover these needs, but there is no research on the effect this plan had on the needs and expectations of persons living with dementia. The objective of this study is to identify persons living with dementia and caregivers' met and unmet needs and to describe their experience.

Methods

This is a sequential mixed methods explanatory design: Phase 1: cross-sectional study to describe the met and unmet health and social care needs of community-dwelling persons living with dementia using Camberwell Assessment of Need of the Elderly and Carers'

SUBMITTER: Khanassov V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8441033 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature