Implications for practice and research

• Promotion of self-management is important following dementia diagnosis, but questions remain regarding the level of disease severity which renders self-management unachievable.

• Group-based self-management interventions are valued by those who participate but ability to tailor to individual needs is important.

• Researchers must work with people with dementia to coproduce and test the acceptability of these complex interventions.

• Researchers also need to consider what the benefits of self-management are for people with dementia and select the most appropriate outcomes to test the efficacy of such interventions.

Context

Self-management for people with dementia has been a neglected area for practice and research. However, the recently acknowledged importance of post-diagnostic support is leading to questions regarding how to encourage self-management in people following diagnosis and limit excess …