Core category	Category	Code
Wards for community-based care becoming complicated	Treatment of both the main illness and dementia is needed	Treatment of the main disease can hardly progress in a dementia patient
		Diagnosis and treatment of dementia to be performed by a physician remain unclear
		Lack in information on the patient’s dementia before hospitalization
	Dementia patient case harder than expected	Thirty percent of hospitalized patients show dangerous behaviors, and do not understand instructions and therefore their social hospitalization is increasing
		Home return is difficult in the case of 60-day hospitalization
	Difficulty in returning home	Being unable to be discharged worsen the dementia as an another hurdle to be cleared
		Respite and social hospitalization are seen because of the priority given to treatment, and the ratio of dementia patients rises
Difficulty in dementia care	Dementia patients who are confused	The patient themselves cannot be aware of dementia of them
		The patient cannot accept themselves becoming unable to understand and become unable to make decisions themselves
	Stress by being unable to have place where the patient is discharged to	Diagnosis for dementia classification is difficult, and the patient becomes irritable after around 30 days
Family who cannot understand dementia	Difficulty that the patient’s family feel	Family of a dementia patient does not want to come to the hospital and it is difficult for them to return to their daily life
		Family of elderly or a dementia patient cannot accept them
	The family believes that the patient will be recovered	The patient’s family does not recognize initial symptoms and minor symptoms as as those of dementia
		Family believes dementia is transient even though they do not look at the patient being conscious about it
		Family cannot recognize correctly if the mark, color or company of the medicine are different
	The patient’s family cannot understand dementia without an opportunity	Family can understand dementia only after the patient is hospitalized
Difficulty of discharge support	Control such as suppression, medicine and diet is not performed well	Suppression, medicine, diet and ADL influence where the patient is discharged to
		Conditions of a dementia patient vary even in one week
		While thinking that we must not let the patient leave, we need to think about their next place to live
	The patient does not have money living alone, and there is not a network to support them in the local community	Resources for supporting the patient’s single life or their family after discharge are short
		The patient lives alone and there are no guarantors and money while the number of facilities is insufficient
		The local community needs to be interested in dementia patients and it is necessary for neighborhood residents to support them
	I feel worried with the situation that the patient’s sleep hours in the daytime are long while results are demanded	Dementia patients do not often reach the goal of their rehabilitation
		Activity of the dementia patient cannot be increased
Lack of required energy amount	The patient’s food intake decreases under the influence of cognitive function degradation and medicine	Information on the patient’s diet is insufficient since they are hospitalized
		The patient’s eating function does not have problems, but their preference is unconfirmed and food intakes do not increase