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Introduction:The society needs volunteers to fulfill its duty to ensure that people with dementia have active and meaningful everyday lives. Volunteers seem to experience their work as positive and meaningful for their own part, but we know less about what motivates volunteers to start working in home-dwelling dementia care and what motivates them to continue their engagement. This study seeks to close some of the knowledge gaps that exist regarding volunteers' engagement in activities for persons with dementia. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore what motivates volunteers to start engaging in volunteer work in home-dwelling dementia care and what motivates them to continue their engagement. Methods: The study design was qualitative, using focus group interviews. Three focus group interviews (n=16) took place between May and June 2018. The text was analyzed using content analysis. Results: Findings in this study indicate that the volunteers were motivated by the feeling of doing an important job for the persons with dementia and their relatives, and that they contribute to their coping with everyday life. Other motivating factors included feeling important to someone, gaining friendship, and sharing common interests. They also believed that they do an important job for the community to fulfill society's goal that people with dementia should stay home longer. However, the volunteers were confused about their role and ask for knowledge, peer support, and clarification of roles. Conclusion: To maintain motivation volunteers need to know what his/her role is. A volunteer can and shall not act as a substitute for a professional, only as a supplement, and the expectations must be addressed to all stakeholders: the health care service, the volunteer, the person with dementia, and their relatives, as we believe that this will contribute to diminishing misunderstandings.

This qualitative study explores informal caregivers’ experiences of supporting persons with dementia’s everyday life coping. In the future, there will be fewer health personnel, increased dementia prevalence and limited nursing home availability. Accordingly, close relatives may be compelled to assume greater care responsibilities. Knowledge concerning persons with dementia’s everyday coping from the perspective of informal caregivers remains insufficient, despite these people’s importance for those with dementia. This investigation analyses informal caregivers’ perceived challenges and pleasures in providing care, how home health care affects everyday life coping and the factors that are most important to informal caregivers in supporting care receivers.

Elder abuse is a major public health problem that may create serious health consequences for the victims, including increased risk of morbidity, mortality, institutionalisation and hospital admission

Aim This study investigates what health care professionals experience is important for improving everyday life of people with dementia living at home. Background A prerequisite for living at home is that people with dementia and their relatives can handle everyday life together despite the challenges that dementia poses. Methods This qualitative study conducted focus group interviews (n = 14), and the data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results The analysis identified one theme—need for enhanced competence to develop and implement individual plans—and three categories: challenge in identifying cognitive decline; need to timeously facilitate an active and meaningful everyday life; and need for consistency, continuity and coordination in dementia home care. Conclusion Increased expertise is needed among health care professionals to contribute to the development and implementation of individual plans in dementia home care. To achieve this, health care professionals' competence and how dementia home care is organized must be seen in conjunction. Implications for Nursing Management Routines should be established for identifying cognitive failure early and providing support and guidance at the beginning of the process. There is a need for nurse managers to facilitate increased advanced competence regarding dementia care for a professional home care service and to consider how home services can be organized to ensure continuity and security for people with dementia and their relatives. Creating and implementing an individual plan which can be a starting point for identifying individual needs and wishes and for coordinating an individual user's services.