Strategies to engage people with dementia and their informal caregivers in dyadic intervention: A scoping review

Dyadic interventions simultaneously engage both people with dementia (PWD) and their informal caregivers (ICGs). This scoping review study identified the strategies for engaging dyads, described perceptions of dyads on these strategies, reported attrition rates dyadic in literature. Articles published up to July 2020, reporting a PWD-ICG-dyads intervention were searched PubMed (Medline), PsycInfo, CINAHL, SSCI. Backwards citation chasing was conducted. A total 37 studies included. Seven engagement identified, which involved: ensuring good-quality interventionist; offering take-home supporting materials; establishing peer support among participants; tailoring content; conducting convenient location; comfortable physical environment, using short succinct programme. The dyads’ subjective experiences reported. included ranged 0% - 59.1%.