| 183 7 • We held a task-focused workshop with the Dementia Care Community (DCC), a community of informal caregivers and professionals at Newcastle University to obtain feedback on preliminary findings (41). Eight informal caregivers, one person living with dementia and two social care workers participated and provided written informed consent. We shared our initial themes from the informal caregivers’ perspective with the group to validate our findings. We asked the DCC specifically about carer burden and how social care might influence this. The meeting was audio recorded and field notes from MH, MP and two research assistants were used to verify and strengthen our thematic model and helped us emphasize key aspects of our thematic model that were important. Next, the analysis from the caregiver data and the social care worker data were combined based on overlap identified throughout the analytic process. Conceptual links between themes were identified. During the entire analysis process, findings were regularly discussed with JW and MP to ensure analytical rigour and oversight. ML and KS were involved in finalizing themes and subthemes. Results We included 15 informal caregivers and 7 social care workers. Demographics are reported in Table 1. Table 1. Demographic characteristics of participants. Informal caregivers (N=15) Social care workers (N=7) Gender (N) Female 8 7 Male 7 - Age (N) 31-40 1 3 31-50 1 1 61-75 9 3 76-90 4 - Ethnicity (N) White British 13 6 South Asian 2 1
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