Abstract
Accurately identifying the unmet needs of family caregivers of people with dementia and implementing interventions and policies that flexibly combine support according to the attributes and circumstances of caregivers and care recipients is an urgent issue. From this perspective, a workshop entitled Tailored Care According to the Support Needs of Family Caregivers of People With Dementia was held at the 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Geriatric & Gerontological Behavioral Sciences. This paper discusses the support needs of family caregivers presented during this workshop and provides additional information and interpretations based on subsequent reflections. Support for family caregivers should not be uniform or standardized but instead adapted to the caregiver-care recipient relationship, their characteristics, and the level of caregiving burden. In particular, addressing the high burden associated with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia requires further research on micro-skills that caregivers can flexibly apply in daily caregiving situations.
