Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine how people living with dementia at home engage in meaningful activities, a critical component of quality of life.

Design

Ethnographic study design using semistructured interviews, participant-observation, and ethnographic analysis.

Setting and participants

Home setting. People living with dementia were recruited through 3 geriatrics programs in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with 1 primary live-in care partner for each. Participants were purposively sampled to maximize heterogeneity of dementia severity and life experience.

Measurements

We asked participants to self-identify and report meaningful activity engagement prior to dementia onset and during the study period using a structured questionnaire, semistructured dyadic interviews, an

SUBMITTER: Allison TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8888776 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature