Issues in developing multilingual graphics-based digital caregiver guides for dementia care

Issues in developing multilingual graphics-based digital caregiver guides for dementia care
Discourse, Context & Media; by Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan, Meredith Troutman-Jordan; 8/25
To increase the opportunity to educate caregivers for persons with dementia, particularly the nearly 40% of migrant healthcare workers emigrating to the US, we have chosen an adaptation of graphic medicine as a means of presenting these workers with conversations about dementia care in two formats of ‘mini-comics’: photo-based and cartoon. Our graphic Caregiver Guides are a form of mediated digital discourse that incorporate both words and pictures, and thereby support caregivers as they draw immediately useful guidance from online materials when offering daily off-line care. Each guide covers a situation that occurs commonly as caregivers care for people living with dementia.