In early 2024, my mentor, MCL PI Alissa B Sideman, led the interviews of our research project, “Family physicians’ perspectives on important outcomes and policies when caring for people with dementia.” The research included 20 semi-structured interviews and a demographic survey with family physician

Since I joined MCL last year, I’ve identified an interest in learning more about social interventions for older adults and their support networks. Through a career in research, I hope to contribute to long-term health care and supportive services available to older adults living with ADRD, their caregivers, and their families.

Occasionally, MCL members receive requests for advice on qualitative and mixed methods studies. Here we will occasionally provide guidance from these conversations.

The concept of saturation plays an essential role in qualitative scholarship, and we may ask too much of it. Metaphorically, saturation occurs when a project or an investigator is soaked through with insights about their focus of inquiry—an experience that occurs repeatedly in the course of a qualit