Self-perceived problems in daily activities and strategy building in people without, with mild and severe dementia

Purpose It is well known that people with dementia experience severe problems in their daily lives. Less is known about how self-perceived problems decline throughout the course of dementia together with their decline in memory and executive functions. Hence, we wanted to assess self-perceived problems when performing daily activities as well as possible developed strategies that help to prevent mentioned difficulties at different cognitive stages for older people. Methods We analyzed qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted with 25 people (age (mean: 67. 64; SD: 23. 625), sex (f: 14 (56%); m: 17 (68%)),…