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How accessible are grocery shops for people with dementia? A qualitative study using photo documentation and focus
Anna Brorsson1, Annika Öhman2, Stefan Lundberg3
1Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Background:
People with dementia who live in ordinary housing need to perform activities outside the home such as visiting friends, talking walks and doing grocery shopping. This article identifies and examines characteristics that may influence accessibility in the space of a grocery shop as perceived by people with dementia.
Methods:
This is a qualitative study with a grounded theory approach. The data collection was done with two different methods. It started with photo documentation and continued with focus group interviews in combination with photo elicitation. Data from both photo documentation and focus groups were analysed according to a grounded theory approach.
Results:
The categories "illogical arrangement", "overload of products, information and people", "visual illusions" and "intrusive auditory stimuli" showed characteristics in the grocery shop that influenced how accessible and usable the informants experienced a shop to be. Furthermore, personal capacities in relation to the specific characteristics of the grocery shop space had an influence on how accessible and usable the informants experienced the grocery shop to be. Capacities to find, stay focused and concentrated, meet stress, remember, interpret and discriminate sensory impressions through hearing and sight came to the fore as important.
Conclusions:
Characteristics of both the shop and the person need to be taken into account when supporting people with dementia in grocery shopping.
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