Limitations, Shortfalls, and Future Recommendations: On Therapies, Policies, and Programs

As thorough as I have attempted to be in the original development of Dementia Grief Therapy (DGT), providing a detailed outline for reproducibility, and detailing the process for you to implement this intervention, there exist therapeutic and methodological limitations that should be considered in future studies. We will not only discuss limitations to DGT but also explore limitations with my policy and program recommendations. To highlight, some general areas that should be considered in future research are systematic administration of valid and reliable grief and trauma measures, measuring loss integration from initial presentation of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), and measurements of changes in the degree of human flourishing or health equity. Specifically, we will discuss the following six limitations: researcher bias, generalizability, oversimplification, measuring errors, applicability, and confidentiality.