Exploring the Experiences of Times Without Care and Encounters in Persons With Dementia in the Swiss and German Nursing Home and Domiciliary Care Settings: Protocol for an Ethnographic Multimethods Study

Thomas Beer   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Julian Hirt   ^{1, 2, 3} , Dr. rer. medic. ;   Laura Adlbrecht   ¹ , MSc ;   Ulrike Lindwedel   ⁴ , MSc ;   Matthias Dammert   ⁵ , Dr. phil. ;   Carola Maurer   ¹ , Dr. phil. ;   Matthias Kliegel   ^{6, 7, 8} , Prof Dr ;   Peter König   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Helma M Bleses   ⁵ , Prof Dr

¹ Department of Health, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, St.Gallen, Switzerland

² Pragmatic Evidence Lab, Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB), University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

³ Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Medical Faculty, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

⁴ Faculty Health, Safety, Society, Furtwangen University, Furtwangen, Germany

⁵ Department of Health Science, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany

⁶ Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

⁷ Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

⁸ Swiss National Center of Competences in Research LIVES–Overcoming vulnerability, Life-Course Perspectives, Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland