Dr. Hiroshige Matsumoto, PhD, Assistant Professor in Department of community health nursing
Dementia-friendly initiatives have been implemented in communities around the world, but the quantitative evaluation of these initiatives has been lacking. This study developed and validated a shortened, four-item version of a scale measuring the general public’s ” attitudes toward people living with dementia. This scale is easier to incorporate into a large-scale survey than the previous longer version, and is expected to be used in evaluations.
Access the full paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39039352/