Family caregivers can play an important role in addressing these deficiencies by communicating their care recipient's symptoms and behaviors to medical providers, but little is known about how caregiv

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• The Experience of Family Caregivers of Older Korean Americans With Dementia Symptoms (2014) · doi

  We conducted four focus groups with 23 family caregivers of older Korean Americans with dementia symptoms and identified eight themes: (a) struggling and overwhelmed; (b) keeping the cultural roles and responsibility; (c) doing it by themselves; (d) family as a source of stress; (e) limited knowledge and misconceptions; (f) learning as they go; (g) undiagnosed dementia and misunderstandings about medical care; and (h) barriers to use of services and need for culturally responsive services.

  Keywords: family dementia services conducted four focus groups caregivers older korean americans symptoms identified eight themes
• Perspectives About Health Care Provision in Dementia Care in Spain (2015) · doi

  RESULTS: The categories that emerged from the analysis were insufficient information provided, specific dementia care needs, and acceptance of long-term care institutionalization from the people with dementia and caregivers' groups and insufficient communication between health care providers, differential information according to disease stage, and home care coordination from the health care providers' groups.

  Keywords: care insufficient information dementia groups health providers categories emerged provided specific needs acceptance long term
• Caregiver–provider communication about pain in persons with dementia (2021) · doi

  Family caregivers can play an important role in addressing these deficiencies by communicating their care recipient's symptoms and behaviors to medical providers, but little is known about how caregivers and providers approach pain-related discussions in the context of dementia.

  Keywords: caregivers providers family play important role addressing deficiencies communicating care recipient symptoms behaviors medical little