With the number of people living with dementia expected to more than double within the next 25 years, the demand for dementia
home care services will increase. In this critical ethnographic study, we drew upon interview and participant data with persons with
dementia, family caregivers, in-home providers, and case managers in nine dementia care networks to examine the management
of dementia home care resources. Three interrelated, dialectical themes were identified: (1) finite formal care-inexhaustible
familial care,(2) accessible resources rhetoric-Iinaccessible resources reality, and (3) diminishing care resources-increasing care needs