Developing a pilot e-mobile app for dementia caregiver support: Lessons learned

This paper discusses the development of Story-Call, a pilot e-mobile multimedia App, or application, for community-based dementia caregiver support, designed to offer reassurance, information and services to caregivers, and facilitate supportive efforts and implementation of other interventions by nurses and therapists. The Story-Call research pilot was designed to deliver personalized story-telling support, dementia care information, and community resources via a mobile phone application to caregivers of community-dwelling persons with dementia. The primary focus of the pilot was to see at what extent caregivers could use the App with minimal training, and how it could increase their own well-being, defined here as resilience.  The review of our pilot process ends with five recommendations for intervention expansion and implementation.