Dementia Steady is a free guide and a growing set of resources for the part nobody prepares you for. Built by a dementia care specialist who has sat with hundreds of families at exactly this moment.
Matt Field has spent fourteen years working inside home care, training dementia care staff across senior living communities and hundreds of first responders on how to actually be with someone who has dementia. He's also an ordained rabbi who spent a decade sitting with aging congregants and the families around them. Dementia Steady comes out of that combination: the clinical understanding of what's happening to the brain, and the pastoral instinct for what a person actually needs to hear in the room.
Start with the free guide. Then go deeper.
"Diagnosed With Dementia: Now What?": nine sections covering the first two weeks, how to talk to someone living with dementia, hard conversations, and how to build a support system that actually holds. Read it free online.
Read the guideOne foundation, three skills: Notice, Read, and Reach, held up by Steady. The framework behind everything else here.
See the methodFive self-paced modules for family caregivers: how to reach them, who they still are, what the behavior is telling you, when it's hardest, and what you notice, starting with yourself. You follow three families throughout, and every module ends with a printable field card for the fridge. The waitlist gets first access and founding pricing.
See the courseA six-week, credentialed training for professional caregivers. The credential is earned through a scored assessment, the format is built for real staff schedules, and what your team learns feeds directly back into how each client is cared for.
Not ready to commit? Start with a free 60-minute on-site workshop for your team.
These are next, as the audience here grows.
Short videos on the moments that are hardest to describe in words.
Printable tools for the legal, medical, and family planning conversations.
Submit a real caregiving question and get a direct answer from Matt.
A place to connect with other caregivers who understand exactly this.