Study	Reason for exclusion
Beck 2002	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Cohen‐Mansfield 2006	Setting (participants recruited from both long‐term care facilities and day centres, no data on the different settings available)
DiNapoli 2016	Setting (geriatric psychiatry)
Farina 2006	Setting (day care centre)
Farina 2009	Setting (day care centre)
Gerber 1991	Setting (psychiatric hospital)
Hong 2011	Intervention (multisensory stimulation)
Hopman‐Rock 1999	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Hsu 2015	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Kolanowski 2005	Design (no randomised controlled trial)
Kovach 2004	Intervention (re‐organisation of activities)
Lin 2009	Intervention (acupressure and activities)
Luttenberger 2012	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Mansbach 2017	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Meeks 2015	Population (not people with dementia)
Morley 2014	Design (editorial)
Mowrey 2013	Design (no control group, retrospective study)
Patel 2016	Design (no control group)
Pieper 2016	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Politis 2004	Intervention (activity‐based cognitive stimulation)
Rapp 2013	Intervention (non‐pharmacological and pharmacological components)
Sackley 2009	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Schneider 2003	Design (no control group)
Sung 2010	Intervention (only listening to music as an activity)
Sánchez 2016	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Treusch 2015	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Vink 2014	Intervention (no personally tailored activities)
Wilks 2017	Design (no control group)