IDoService Project: Interviews on Dementia and Social Activities in Greater Manchester

Work Package 1 of the IDoService project contains interview and focus group data from people living with mild to moderate dementia, their families, and stakeholders. The data collection, led by Laura Orton, provides an overview of available social and leisure opportunities and access support in Greater Manchester. It serves as a basis for co-design workshops in the subsequent project phase.

Use Cases

• Analyzing needs and wishes for social activities based on interview transcripts with people living with dementia.
• Mapping local service availability and accessibility support based on the overview of services in Greater Manchester.
• Informing co-design of tailored activity services based on the identified gaps and opportunities from the literature review and stakeholder discussions.

Strengths

• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
• The description provides a clear methodological outline of interviews, focus groups, and a literature review.
• The dataset is part of a structured three-stage service design project.

Limitations

• The dataset is small at 1.2 MB, suggesting limited scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The data format is PDF/ZIP, which may require extraction and parsing of unstructured text.

Provenance

Source

Laura Orton via figshare.

Collection Method

Individual and group interviews, focus groups, literature review, and service mapping.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:50:40.

Geography

Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.