Caring for People With Dementia: Mapping the Experience and Journey From Diagnosis
Findings suggest a critical role of time in dementia care journeys, impacting the support that care partners need from health care and aged care systems. The potentially foreseeable, time-based nature of unmet needs suggests that education and training of practitioners can highlight the needs of carers for knowledge, support, and connection, and the importance of prioritizing them differentially according to the stages of the carer journey.
Authors
- Danielle Ní Chróinín (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-9718)
- Lukas Hofstaetter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7694-3975)
- Michelle DiGiacomo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5484-8224)
- Ruby Lipson‐Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1702-8144)
- Olivia Maurice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4540-9868)
- Ruth Brookman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6060-1989)
- Madeleine Cannings (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3836-1162)
- Celia B. Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5261-4205)
- Nina Mcllwain
Institutions
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- New South Wales Department of Health (AU)
- Liverpool Hospital (AU)
- South Western Sydney Local Health District (AU)
- Western Sydney University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Gerontologist
- Published
- 2025-02-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf053
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 19.71
Funders
- Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise