Study	Adverse events
Dias 2008	The intervention (LHW‐led carer intervention) led to a reduction in the number of deaths in patients with dementia compared to usual care (RR 0.40, 95% CI 0.01 to 1.02 (reported in paper as OR 0.34, 95% CI 0.01 to 1.03)), although mortality overall was high (18%), of which 6/41 deaths occurred in the intervention arm and 12/40 deaths in the control arm. Causes of death were stroke (n = 4), pneumonia (n = 4), myocardial infarction (n = 3), and septicaemia (n = 2)
Gavrilova 2009	In all, 5/30 deaths occurred in the intervention arm (stroke in 2 participants; pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and intestinal obstruction) and 2/30 in the control arm (pneumonia and diabetic coma)