| 215 8 Lastly, looking ahead to the future, there is an expected increase in the number of people with dementia living at home whilst the number of people who can provide informal care will likely decrease. This holds major implications on how care and support for people with dementia and informal caregivers will be organized. To prevent a drastic increase in informal caregiver burden, it can be worth exploring how we increase the informal care capacity by expanding the focus from primary informal caregivers such as spouses or children to also include the wider social network. This means that caregiving tasks and responsibilities can be more equally shared among the primary caregiver, neighbours, friends and other family members.
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