Balancing safety and harm for older adults with dementia in rural emergency departments: healthcare professionals' perspectives

Kathleen Hunter

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, collected data, supervised data collection, data analysis, wrote the first draft, overall responsibility for integrating feedback and final manuscript, nominated principal investigator

position: Associate Professor

Canada

Nurse practitioners

Belinda Parke

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, literature review, collected data, data analysis, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts, co-principal investigator

position: Associate Professor

Maureen Babb

qualifications: BA

contribution: assisted with data collection, assisted with data analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Research assistant

Dorothy Forbes

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, contributed to drafts

position: 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

Laurel Strain

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, data analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Professor Emeritus