Formal caregivers’ perceptions of everyday interaction with Deaf people with dementia

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographics of the participants.

Demographics		N = 13
Age in years	~20–30	5
	31–40	4
	41–	4
Qualification	Nurse (practical or registered)	10
	Other	3
Dementia-nurse-training or similar	Yes	9
	No	4
Work experience in years	< 3 y	3
	3–8 y	4
	> 9 y	6
Work experience with hearing people with dementia	None	4
	< 1 y	7
	1–3 y	1
	> 3 y	1

Table

Theme	Examples of questions
Background	Tell me about yourself and your work
Education in dementia	Tell me about your education in dementia
Work with Deaf people with dementia	Tell me about your work with Deaf people with dementia
Experiences of interaction with Deaf people with dementia	Tell about your experience of interaction with Deaf people with dementia. What language do you use? How do you communicate? What are conversations like? Give examples. What do you talk about? Who makes initiative? How does conversation go on? Tell about greetings, how does it go? When you meet family members, what do you talk about with them?
Challenges in interaction	What kind of challenges have you met? Tell some examples. What are difficult situations like? What happens during them? What makes them difficult? How do you feel then?
Solving challenges in interaction	If you face challenges, how do you react? How do you solve them? What works best? Why? What happens then? What does not work? Why? How does it go then? If there’s been a third person involved, what has she/he done?
Support in interaction	What kind of support have you offered to a Deaf person with dementia or to their family members? What kind of support have you hoped for yourself? What kind of support helps you the best? Why? Who do you get support from or wish getting support from? What do you hope for the support? What helps you to carry on with your work
“Free word”	Is there something I have not asked but you want to tell?
Questions for those who participated in video-data-study (Rantapää, Virtanen & Pekkala, 2021)	Tell about your experience of videoed interactions. Who did you have most challenges with? Why? Who was the easiest to interact with? Why? What kind of challenges there were in the interactions? How did you solve them?

Rantapää, M., Virtanen, I. A., & Pekkala, S. (2021). Supportive interaction between formal caregivers and Deaf people with dementia. Educational Gerontology, 47(8), 369–382. https://doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2021.1988447

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