Signal CareMirror: Bringing Caregiver Wellbeing into the Dementia Care Ecosystem

Summary

Family caregivers of people living with dementia carry substantial emotional and practical responsibilities, yet their own wellbeing is often peripheral to dementia care systems. Researchers built CareMirror, an envisioned caregiver wellbeing ecosystem with interconnected interfaces for caregivers and clinicians, designed to support longitudinal reflection, personalized support and caregiver-controlled information sharing with clinical care. The team conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 caregivers, using CareMirror as a design probe to examine perceptions of this ecosystem. The interviews explored what expectations, concerns and boundaries emerged around caregiver-controlled sharing with clinicians. The work is an early-stage design study rather than a deployed system.