Farm-based day care services for people with dementia: quality development through interdisciplinary collaboration

The interest in day care services on farms for people with dementia (PWD) is increasing, and care farming can be viewed as a sustainable use of farm resources. The project aims to contribute to quality development of the services and elucidate factors that are of key importance for collaboration between the farmers as the private and the health care services in a municipality as the public partner. Triangulation of theoretical and methodological approaches is used in the project carried out by researchers in agricultural and health sciences, sociology and ecnonomy, and with an advisory board of people with related to farm based day care for PWD.