Table 2.

Types of changes reported by the person with dementia and carers.

	Robinson et al.	Keady	Brown and Alligood	Krull	Leung et al.	Mukadam et al.	Van Vliet et al.	Koehn et al.	McCleary et al.
Participants	Person with dementia	Carers	Carers	Carers	Person with dementia and carers	Carers	Carers	Person with dementia and carers	Person with dementia and Carers
Changes reported	Memory	Memory & behavioural/personality	None reported	Memory/ cognitive & behavioural/ personality	Memory & behavioural/personality	Memory (first)	Memory & behavioural/personality	Memory & behavioural/personality	Memory & behavioural/personality
Additional					Person with dementia noticed memory/ cognitive while carers noticed behavioural/ personality	Note: only one sentence on changes noticed		Person with dementia noticed memory/ cognitive while carers noticed behavioural/ personality	Authors say that person with dementia gave fewer details than carers about early signs