Discussion
A number of challenges were found regarding study’s feasibility aim. The criteria of being in the early stages of AD restricted the recruitment of the largest number of persons who would have been willing to participate. Persons in all types of residence posed this challenge except for those in the assistive living agencies. Those in independent living agencies and in the community, where the expectation regarding function would be greater, had 20% & 40% of these groups not meeting the early stage criteria. A second recruitment challenge was to find ones who would commit to participation which last 6 mounts and requires daily and weekly interventions. This challenge was no doubt accentuated due to the novelty of the interventions. Recruitment and retention might both be increased by using a two step recruitment process. Step one could include just a brief visit to allow the potential subject to become familiar with the recruiter and being establishing a trust relationship. Step two could be having the flexibility of dividing the screening and consent process into multiple smaller time periods. This would reduce the fatigue factor as well as subject anxiety regarding sustaining focus and performance.