Knowledge exchange throughout the dementia care journey by Canadian rural community-based health care practitioners, persons with dementia, and their care partners: an interpretive descriptive study

Dorothy Forbes

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, supervised data collection, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts, conducted qualitative analysis & interpretation of data, supervised the entire project

position: Associate professor

Canada

Research interests: Strategies to support persons with dementia, their care partners, and health care providers in rural Canada; dementia care knowledge translation and mobilization; co-creation of evidence-informed decision making related to dementia care; Cochrane Reviews on interventions that manage the symptoms of dementia

Sara Finkelstein

qualifications: MSc

contribution: collected data, input data, coded data, interpreted findings, contributed to drafts

position: Research assistant

Catherine Blake

qualifications: MA

contribution: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, cleaned transcripts, coordinated the project

position: Research associate

Maggie Gibson

qualifications: PhD

contribution: interpreted findings, disseminated results, contributed to drafts

position: Psychologist

Canada

Debra Morgan

qualifications: PhD

contribution: interpreted findings, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Maureen Markle-Reid

qualifications: PhD

contribution: interpreted findings, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor

Ivan Culum

qualifications: BA

contribution: statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Postgraduate student

Emily Thiessen

qualifications: BNSc

contribution: interpreted findings, disseminated results, contributed to drafts

position: Resarch assistant