Recruitment and assessment

Two facilitators mentioned that the introductory session for carers was useful for gaining information about participants, but that more time could have been spent on this to inform further person-specific adaptations. Two facilitators suggested that those participants with more cognitive decline were less suitable for the course and one of them felt that this problem arose because facilitators had not involved in participant selection.

‘…there were extremes, to some extent, of people that, kind of, met criteria perfectly and others that, you know, I struggled to see why they would be in the group…’ (F04)

One facilitator mentioned that it would have been helpful if more information about how aware participants were of their diagnosis had been included in participant referrals.

‘…the downside of, or the danger of naming something [the dementia diagnosis] was, do people in the group, are they aware of it, have they been told, how have they been told, what do they understand…’ (F03)