A free on-site workshop, a seven-week credentialed dementia care training, and an advanced track for supervisors, built from training dementia care staff and hundreds of first responders since 2012, and built to end inside your care system instead of inside a binder.
Most training proves someone sat through it. Steady Check shows what a caregiver does at the door, at the shower, and after something goes wrong: six people living with dementia, twelve decisions the way they would make them on shift, and a report your supervisors can act on the same day. Ten minutes, on their phone, before the client finds out for you.
Before the seven-week credential, there's a single on-site session: 60 minutes, run live with your team, built around real moments your caregivers already recognize. It's the fastest way to see whether the Steadier Ground Method fits how your organization actually works, before anyone commits to more.
Caregivers leave with a shared vocabulary for the hardest moments on shift, a felt sense of what changes when they change their approach instead of the person, and a clear picture of what the deeper credentialed training builds on. No slides to memorize and nothing to take home but the experience.
The workshop is launching across Chicagoland first. If your team is somewhere else, tell us where; it will travel as it grows, and knowing where the demand is decides where it goes next.
Each tier builds on the one before it.
Several core modules plus a capstone, three fictional clients your staff follow the whole way through, and practice in every session. No disease-biology lectures; the skills that change shifts.
It's built from hands-on dementia care training delivered since 2012, condensed into practice your staff can actually use on shift, not lecture they sit through.
Six specific principles for reaching someone whose words are becoming unreliable, practiced until they hold up under pressure, not just in theory.
Building a Care Profile for a real client: their history, their standards, what they still do for themselves. Staff who know who someone was read a refusal completely differently from staff who only know the diagnosis.
Notice, Read, and Reach applied on shift: catching your own reaction, reading refusal, repetition, agitation, and accusation for the need underneath, and responding to what the behavior is actually saying. The body gets ruled out first.
Sundowning, persistent refusal, paranoia, and exit-seeking, and Steady underneath all of it. Not a fourth skill, the ground the other three stand on: what your body wants to do, and what to do instead.
The five-element observation note that supervisors can act on, doctors take seriously, and the client's care plan actually absorbs.
Reading a shift guide like an instrument panel, escalating at the right moments, and the one hard moment the rest of the program saves for last: the family in the room, the correcting spouse, the contradicting daughter. Their notes drive the client's care, so the training lands inside your operation.
Program structure subject to final clinical review.
The flipped format respects the thing agencies never have enough of: staff hours. Learning happens on their time; live time is pure practice.
At the end of the program, every caregiver responds to a scenario they have never seen: translate the behavior, respond with steadiness, write the note. It is scored against a fixed rubric, and passing is required for the credential. Caregivers who fall short get coaching and a retake, because the goal is capability, not attrition.
That's what the certificate means when it's hanging in your office: not that someone attended, but that they demonstrated the work. Your families can be told that. Your referral partners can be told that.
This is Dementia Steady's own credential. It is not a state license, and it does not replace the dementia training your state requires.
The credential is not the end of the program. It is the point where the three skills stop belonging to one caregiver and start belonging to your operation. The note a caregiver writes at the end of a visit feeds the reassessment your supervisor makes from it, and that reassessment rewrites the one-page guide the next caregiver reads before walking in. What your staff learn on a Tuesday changes how your client is cared for by Friday, on a schedule, not by luck.
Every training decays without reinforcement, so the program ships with a sustainment layer: a five-minute, supervisor-run team huddle, weekly-capable, plus pocket cards caregivers can reach for in the moment. The skills stay warm because the reps never stop.
It is the same method families learn on this site, in the same three words. Read the whole method →
The Person-Centered Dementia Care Self-Assessment is 18 questions across five practice areas. You'll get a scored report showing where your team is strong and where person-centered practices are still inconsistent, with each gap mapped directly to the training that addresses it.
Takes about 10 minutes. Results are immediate. No compliance claims, no licensing implications: a practical diagnostic built for training coordinators and directors who want to know what to fix first.
You answer this one yourself, about the program as a whole. To see what an individual caregiver actually does under pressure, that is Steady Check.
Take the team self-assessmentTell us a bit about your organization, including where your team is based and whether you'd like to start with the free workshop. We'll follow up to talk through fit, format, and pricing, no commitment to start.