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Dementia Friendly
Community; the views of
graduate students
regarding dementia and
dementia friendly campus.
Priyanka Gautam
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Research Questions
Convenience sampling method for the colleges, Snowball sampling for the
students within the colleges.
Limitation:
Data Analysis
Comparisons were drawn out within different colleges from where the data
was collected to identify the diversity in themes within colleges
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Result
The familiarity on the subject was vague and to its simplest form.
“Yeah, I my grand mom seems to forget all the time. So now I realize
that could be it. But at that time, I didn't know it was dementia but she
used to forget to eat and sometimes they say she hasn't ate her
meals and few other things. But yeah now I think it's dementia.”(non
health)
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Theme 1: Familiarity with dementia
and being dementia friendly
Over-familiarization
“I'm not familiar with that one but I see like all of these students
in my class that I TA in, like they're having this kind of problem
here. You know, they keep forgetting things. So, you know,
maybe that is what they are suffering from. I need to look into
that.” (non health)
Dementia Friendly
“…I've never been there so I don't like actually what they do and
I know there is DRC I think they help people with a disability and
I think dementia is also a kind of disability.”(non health)
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Theme 2: Lack of sources of information
in campus
important learning aspect, not just for them, when they later go
and serve to the community, but also for current scenario where
they might have to face people living with dementia and their
family care partners in the campus itself.
“On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being like highly skilled one being
the lowest I would say like to say seven because I don't know
enough to help in terms of like services to offer or whatever they
may need but I do know that I can ask them as well as ask
around and figure it out. So, I don't think I'm really that low but I
don't think I'm really that high either.”(health)
“I'm not that most skillful but I am like kind of friendly. But I lack
that confidence in interacting with them. I won’t know what to say
ya.”(non health)
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Theme 4: Contributing towards
removing the gaps in campus
the students were eager to learn and help people living with
dementia and their family care partners.
Since the students are the ones who after graduating will be
exposed to different jobs, which would introduce them to different
sectors of the community, it is important that the campus takes
responsibility and provides the set of skills required to the students
when they are in the college