Care Partner Inclusion of People Hospitalized With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systems Engineering Approach to Designing a Health Care System Toolkit

Beth Fields   ^{1 *} , OTR/L, PhD ;   Catherine Still   ^{1 *} , BS ;   Austin Medlin   ^{2 *} , BS ;   Andrea Strayer   ^{3, 4 *} , AGPCNP-BC, CNRN, PhD ;   Alicia I Arbaje   ^{5 *} , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi   ^{6 *} , RN, PhD ;   Nicole Werner   ^{2 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

² Department of Design & Wellness, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States

³ College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States

⁴ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

⁵ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁶ BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

*all authors contributed equally