Dementia Steady: the course

The guide gets you through the first two weeks. The course is built for everything after. Five modules, 30 to 50 minutes each, that teach you how to reach the person you love, read what their behavior is telling you, stay steady in the hardest moments, and notice what's changing, starting with yourself, so you know what doctors need to hear. It's free, and Module 1 is open to everyone. Start there.

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By Matt Field · Dementia Care Specialist · Caregiver Educator · Ordained Rabbi

The five modules

1. How to Reach Them. Practical ways to keep the connection when words become unreliable. Stop managing, start connecting.
2. Who They Still Are. You are not caring for a diagnosis. Build the portrait of the person that makes every hard moment easier to read.
3. What It's Telling You. Refusal, repetition, agitation, accusation: a step-by-step way to read behavior as communication and respond to what it's actually saying.
4. When It's Hardest. The moments that break caregivers, and your own steadiness in them, treated as a skill you can practice, not a personality trait.
5. What You Notice. How to catch what's changing, starting with what's happening in you, and see it early enough in them to describe it so doctors and care teams take it seriously.

How it works

Self-paced, on your schedule. Each module runs 30 to 50 minutes. Do one a week or one a night; your progress and your commitments are saved as you go.
You follow three families. Ruth, Gene, and Grace run through the course, so the skills build on people you come to know, not abstract examples.
Field cards for the fridge. Every module ends with a printable one-page card, so the skill is in your kitchen at 7 a.m., not in a browser tab.
Commitments that carry. Each module ends with one specific commitment, and the next module opens by asking how it went. Small, real, and yours.

Finished Module 1? Get your link to the rest

Modules 2 through 5 open with a link. If you haven't read Module 1 yet, start there, no email needed; the button at its end brings you back here.

Enter your email and a link to all five modules arrives within a minute, from info@dementiasteady.com. Tap the link, then tap the one button on the page it opens, and you are in. The link works once, on the phone or computer you open it on, so open it on the one you will actually use. Free, no pressure: the occasional Field Note from Matt, and you can unsubscribe any time.

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