Exploration of an Online Education Program to Support Caregivers' Knowledge Transfer

Exploration of Structure Retrieval Practice to Support Caregivers' Knowledge Transfer

The overarching goal of this work is to determine methods that improve caregiver education about the behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD) of dementia. The specific goal of this project is to extend our prior work to evaluate the impact of our educational intervention on caregivers' ability to transfer knowledge about the management of ADRD to real-world applied examples.

Inclusion Criteria:

• informal caregivers
• 18+ years old
• Read and speak English
• free of cognitive impairments that prevent consent and/or completing experimental tasks
• remote participants need access to a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer to complete tasks.

Exclusion Criteria:

• professional caregivers
• former caregivers who are not currently caring for someone living with dementia
• caregivers providing assistance to someone with normal cognition