Internal Facilitation by Health Assistants for the “WHO Lay Health Worker Dementia Care” in Rural Uganda: A Formative Evaluation
Health assistants' internal facilitation provides a promising strategy for scaling dementia care in rural Uganda by leveraging community-based lay health workers. Addressing identified knowledge gaps, communication needs, and resource constraints will be essential to sustaining dementia care interventions in these communities.
Authors
- Mary Samantha
- Stephen J. Bartels (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7985-2905)
- Zohray Talib (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-8144)
- Edith K. Wakida (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-8474)
- Samuel Maling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3320-5961)
- Jessica E. Haberer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5845-3190)
- Celestino Obua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-3059)
- Godfrey Zari Rukundo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3739-1426)
- Christine Karungi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8475-3397)
Institutions
- Harvard University (US)
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology (UG)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2147/jmdh.s507819
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.49
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Fogarty International Center