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. 2024 Aug 17;24:690. doi: 10.1186/s12877-024-05250-4
Included Excluded
Population: People living with dementia

• Sources that include a participant group who are affected with dementia

OR

• Sources that focus on the dementia patient population

• Sources in which it is not made explicit that the participant group is affected with dementia

OR

• Sources that focus on non-dementia patient population

Concept: Dementia care pathway
• Defined as an approach to systematically planning, modifying, or varying patient care or organizing follow-up care across four common points: early symptom identification and first service encounters, assessment process, diagnostic disclosure, and post-diagnostic support and appropriate intervention • Sources that focus on pathways for end-of-life, responsive behaviours or on one of the four common points only
• Sources that are academic literature (i.e., studies, conceptual papers) • Sources with insufficient details to meaningfully meet the scoping review objectives
• Sources from any geographic region • Sources without English language full text