Underutilization of community care services has been described for informal dementia caregivers. Most research has however examined caregivers' access to home or respite care rather than to services for themselves. The aims of this study are: to describe access and retention of informal dementia caregivers in psychosocial interventions; examine the perceived effects of interventions among users and motives for non-use among non-users; and compare caregivers with and without lifetime access and retention in psychosocial interventions across predisposing, enabling and need variables.
