"Just like meeting in person" - Examination of interdependencies in dementia-friendly virtual activities.

Many dementia-friendly social programs were adapted to online delivery due to the COVID pandemic. Hasty adaptations make it unclear how to design these programs to capture the benefts of online delivery and face-to-face interactions. To understand the complexities of program delivery, we interviewed program coordinators and held focus groups with people living with dementia (PLWD) and their informal carers. We applied an interdependence framework to examine how the relationships between individuals afect program benefts. We found that interdependencies within an organization related to fnances and networking are key and that organizational and individual interdependencies converge during program delivery. Our fndings suggest these two interdependencies could infuence one another more efectively if technology, like video conferencing, were designed to account for it. We discuss how an expanded notion of interdependency for the design of technology helps expand inclusivity in accessible social programs.