Real caregiving moments, one at a time. Search for what you're facing right now, and you'll find what may be happening, what to say, what not to say, and when it's time to call for help, all built on the Steadier Ground Method.
39 situations, each one a real caregiving moment. New guides are added regularly, built from real training experience, not a generic checklist.
No situation matches that yet. Tell me what you're facing and it may be the next guide written. The Alzheimer's Association Helpline, 1-800-272-3900, is available 24/7.
When the same question, or the same suspicion, keeps returning.
The everyday tasks that can become the hardest flashpoints.
When the day's structure falls away and the world stops feeling familiar.
When the things a person has always handled start to carry real risk.
Moments where physical safety comes first, for both of you.
Rarely discussed elsewhere, handled here with dignity for everyone in the room.
When the feeling is clear but the words, or the trigger, aren't.
Dementia changes the family around the person too.
Every guide above ends by asking you to note the hour and what came right before. These are the pages to do it on. The emergency room handoff prints straight away, no email, because you may be reading this on the way out the door. The other three are one sheet each, free, for an email address.
Emergency room handoffOne page for triage: who they are on an ordinary day, what changed and when, what helps. Print it before you go.Free to print, no emailTell me what you're facing, in a sentence or a paragraph. Nobody writes back to this box, and I read every one. It decides which guide gets written next. Leave out names, addresses and anything else that would identify the person.
The guides above are for the moment you are in. These five are for the question behind it: what is going on, what to expect, and the conversations that come sooner or later.
Diagnosed With Dementia: Now What? walks through the first two weeks after the diagnosis. The course goes deeper, with five modules built around three families navigating exactly this.
Every situation guide ends with a line in soft italic type. It carries no letter because Steady is not a step to take. It is the ground you are standing on while you take the other three.
The one-page log above is somewhere to keep the tracking these guides describe, and the Care Planning Essentials worksheet in the diagnosis guide holds the longer view.