Table 1.

Overview of study parameters, measurement instruments and measurement points

Measure	Instrument	Filled out by Person with dementia	Informal caregiver
Inclusion criterion
(Very) Mild dementia	CDR	T0	T0
Exclusion criterion
Trauma	MINI Psychiatric Interview, module PTSD	T0
Primary outcome measure
Neuropsychiatric symptoms of person with dementia	NPI, total score		T0, T1, T2
Secondary outcome measures
Caregiver burden	NPI, module Distress		T0, T1, T2
	EDIZ		T0, T1, T2
	TOPICS-MDS, modules Time investment and Burden		T0, T1, T2
Quality of life of caregiver	TOPICS-MDS, modules CarerQol and Quality of life (RAND-36 and variant of Cantril’s Self Anchoring Ladder)		T0, T1, T2
Health of caregiver	TOPICS-MDS, module Health (RAND-36)		T0, T1, T2
Health-economic evaluation
Care consumption	TOPICS-MDS, module Use of care		T0, T1, T2
Health-related quality of life of person with dementia	TOPICS-MDS, module EQ5D + Cognitive	T0, T1, T2
Personal Information
Socio-demographics	TOPICS-MDS, module General data		T0
Personal functioning of person with dementia	TOPICS-MDS, modules Daily functioning (Katz-15) and Social functioning (RAND-36)	Daily functioning: T0, T1, T2	Daily functioning & Social functioning: T0, T1, T2
Health of person with dementia	TOPICS-MDS, modules Health and Multimorbidity	Health: T0, T1, T2	Multimorbidity: T0, T1, T2
Psychological well-being of person with dementia	TOPICS-MDS, module Psychological well-being	T0, T1, T2
Quality of life of person with dementia	TOPICS-MDS, module Quality of life (RAND-36 and variant of Cantril’s Self Anchoring Ladder)	T0, T1, T2
Longer term outcome
Nursing home admittance	Addressed in month 18 with general practitioner
Process evaluation
Other (reminiscence) activities	Open question		T1, T2
Use of OLSB	Open questions		T1, T2