Participant recruitment and eligibility criteria
dementia
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, RECRUITMENT
PlwD and their informal caregiver will be recruited in the primary care setting through specifically qualified study nurses who work with general practitioners (GP), neurologists, psychiatrists and memory clinics who are in ongoing collaborations and studies with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) at the site Rostock/Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a predominantly rural state in the north-eastern part of Germany. Study nurses will act as gatekeepers in this study as they may be perceived as trustworthy by participants due to their previous contact in other studies. Based on the means of recruitment, participants could have been included in other recently completed studies (PlwD should meet the following inclusion criteria: positively screened for dementia through the DemTect procedure (DemTect ≤ 8) (Ethical approval has been obtained from the Local Ethical Committee at the University Medicine Greifswald (Registry number BB128/21 and BB 128/21a). The overall study design is illustrated in Study procedures.