AbstractBackgroundIn Taiwan, more than 90% of persons with dementia who live at home are cared for by family caregivers. According to previous researches, family caregivers of dementia have a higher level of burden than almost all other diseases of old age. In addition, due to the different courses of dementia in each stage, coupled with the complexity of its problems, persons with different stages of dementia have different care demands. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the care management needs of family caregivers caring for persons with dementia at different stages.MethodA cross‐sectional study was conducted. Of the 250 family caregivers of persons with dementia were included. The Care Management Needs Scale (CMNS) was used to measure the care management needs of family caregivers, which is divided into six dimensions of needs (care service, psychological support, immediate information, anticipated information, referral and tracking of long‐term care resources, and individual case management service). The severity of dementia was determined by a neurologist using the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale.ResultFrom very mild dementia to severe dementia, the dimension with the highest needs at each stage are individual case management service, immediate information, referral and tracking of long‐term care resources, and care service, respectively. The overall needs, care service and psychological support in moderate dementia are significantly higher than very mild dementia. According to the needs of each item, the three highest needs are related to the dimension of immediate information and individual case management service in very mild dementia and mild dementia; in the case of moderate to severe dementia, care service began to appear in the three highest needs.ConclusionThe study concluded that different stages of dementia have different care management needs. When moderate dementia (CDR = 2.0), the need for care services will begin to increase. The findings suggest that care management should be provided for different stages of dementia. This study’s results provide a knowledge base for designing dementia stage‐specific care management in clinical practice and developing community‐based, long‐term care systems for family caregivers of persons with dementia.