Discussion and Implications
dementia, Dementia, ReDeSign
The findings provide evidence that dementia-friendly training reduces the general public’s stigma and increases helping behavior in stores. Mitigation of time constraints through mobile microlearning is expected to contribute to the dissemination and help people living with dementia maintain their social participation in the communities.
Social participation of people living with dementia should be ensured not only for their rights (Dementia-friendly training for store workers is one of the most important programs for encouraging people living with dementia to engage in social and economic activities. Shopping is the most common and preferred reason for them to go out (However, there is a lack of evidence for dementia-friendly training for the public, including workers in general occupations. Although existing qualitative and single-group pre–post studies have reported that dementia-friendly training improves knowledge of dementia or attitudes toward dementia in the general public (In addition, it has been repeatedly stated that it is difficult to disseminate dementia-friendly training in general occupations (To address these challenges, a new dementia-friendly training program called ReDeSign (Relational Design for Dementia and Task Significance) was developed and evaluated in an RCT. This study reports the main results of this trial.ReDeSign adopted mobile microlearning (