Who writes it, who checks it, what the line at the bottom of a guide means, and what to do if you find something wrong.
Every page on this site is written by Matt Field, a dementia care specialist who has worked inside dementia-specialized home care in the Chicago area since 2012, training care staff across senior living communities and hundreds of first responders. The situation guides are built from moments that came up again and again in that work, and from what held when a family or a care team tried it.
The guidance draws on current published dementia care practice. Where a page leans on a specific tool or protocol, it names it, so a clinician reading over your shoulder can check the source rather than take the page's word for it.
Licensed clinical and care professionals read the situation guides, the quick references, the two long guides and the Caregiver First Aid scripts. The pages for first responders are read by first-responder professionals as well, and the pages for healthcare workers by hospital clinicians.
A review covers the parts of a page that can hurt someone if they are wrong: the tiers that say when to call and when to go, the wording around 911 and hospice, the choking sequence, the medication thresholds, and any sentence that could be read as telling a family what a person has or what a family can settle on its own. The voice and the structure are the site's. The thresholds are the reviewer's to approve.
Every guidance page carries the same line: independent clinical review is in progress and this page will be updated when it is complete. Some of those pages have been read by a reviewer and some are still waiting. They carry the same line because the professionals who have read them have not yet agreed to be named publicly, and this site will not claim a review it cannot attribute.
When a reviewer agrees to be named, the pages they read will say who read them, what that person is licensed in, and when. Until then, treat every page here as carefully written, checked against published guidance, and not yet signed.
Reviewed, when it appears, will never mean approved for your family member. No page here knows the person you are caring for, their history, or their medicines. It means a qualified professional read this version of this page and found nothing that would send a family the wrong way.
Every situation guide carries a last-updated line. The printable field cards and the two long-guide PDFs are generated from their pages rather than edited separately, so a download cannot fall behind a correction. When a page that has been reviewed changes in a way that touches its clinical wording, it goes back to review-in-progress until it has been read again.
Write to info@dementiasteady.com with the page and the sentence. Matt reads that address. A clinical error is fixed first and explained afterwards, on the page's last-updated line and, where it matters, in the guide's own text.
It is not a substitute for the clinician who knows your person. In an emergency, call 911. To talk something through at any hour, the Alzheimer's Association Helpline is free and open around the clock: 1-800-272-3900.