Table 4.

Types of participation trajectories of the decision making about daycare

Trajectory type	Initial expectations	Negotiation about daycare	Tryout of daycare	Experiences with daycare	Care networks within this trajectory
1. Working together positively toward daycare	All participants have positive expectations	Promoting daycare	yes	Positive about daycare	5, 7, 13, 17
2. Bringing conflicting perspectives together toward trying daycare	Person with dementia has negative expectations and sometimes the spouse does too, while other participants are positive.	Professionals and informal caregivers (adult children) promoting daycare. The person with dementia resists daycare or has no clear role in the negotiation. The spouse or other primary informal caregivers are ambivalent toward daycare. They tend to align with the person with dementia or resist daycare themselves. After multiple conversations about daycare, the person with dementia and the informal caregivers are willing to support trying daycare	Yes	Positive, negative or mixed experiences	1, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
3. No commitment to try daycare	Person with dementia negative, the informal caregivers are negative or have no clear expectations about daycare, professionals are positive	The professionals in these situations promote daycare, while the person with dementia resists. The informal caregivers either resist as well or align with the person with dementia. Daycare does not suit the person with dementia because he or she dislikes groups or does not like being away from home. Professionals eventually accept that the person with dementia does not want to try daycare	No		10, 15