Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Namaste Care program is a person-centered intervention that has been shown to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and to alleviate caregiver burden. However, its application in China remains underexplored. Given China's unique sociocultural norms, cultural adaptation is essential to ensure feasibility, acceptability, and contextual fit. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective is to culturally adapt the Namaste Care Home Program to the Chinese community context. The secondary objective is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the adapted program (qualitative analysis), and to explore its preliminary effects (quantitative analysis) on quality of life and related outcomes for people with dementia and their family caregivers. METHODS: A 3-stage, 11-step mixed methods design is used in this study. The process includes a baseline stage for community assessment and stakeholder consultations, a formulation stage for adapting the intervention and training materials, and an execution and evaluation stage in which trained family caregivers deliver the intervention. A 1-group, pretest-posttest design will be used, with quantitative assessments at baseline (T0), immediately after intervention (T1), and at the 3-month follow-up (T2), complemented by qualitative process evaluations. RESULTS: The study was approved in April 2025 (2025-NZY-4-01) and registered on April 18, 2025 (ChiCTR2500101042). Recruitment occurred from January to April 2025, enrolling 15 caregiver-people with dementia dyads. As of April 2025, baseline data collection is complete, and analysis is ongoing. Primary results are expected in mid-2026. CONCLUSIONS: The cultural adaptation of the Namaste Care Home Program is a critical step toward advancing person-centered, home-based dementia care in China. Findings will provide evidence on feasibility and cultural appropriateness and will inform the design of future large-scale trials to test effectiveness in cross-cultural settings.