A six-week, credentialed dementia care training for the staff who are with clients and residents every day. Built from fourteen years training dementia care staff and hundreds of first responders, and built to end inside your care system instead of inside a binder.
The observation skills your caregivers learn in week five feed each client's regular reassessment. The reassessment updates the client's risk picture. And the one-page shift guide the next caregiver reads before walking in is regenerated from it. What your staff learn on a Tuesday changes how your client is cared for by Friday, measurably, on a schedule.
Six modules, 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 on the same Steadier Ground Method used in our free guide and course — Reach, Read, Steady, and Notice — adapted here for professional practice.
Six specific principles for reaching someone whose words are becoming unreliable, practiced until they hold up under pressure, not just in theory.
A five-step translation framework for reading refusal, repetition, agitation, and accusation as unmet needs, and responding to what the behavior is actually saying.
Sundowning, persistent refusal, paranoia, and exit-seeking, and steadiness as a trainable skill: 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.
The correcting spouse. The contradicting daughter. The hard moments family trainings never cover, because for professionals, the family is part of the shift.
Reading a shift guide like an instrument panel, escalating at the right moments, and seeing exactly how their notes drive the client's care, so the training lands inside your operation.
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 published 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.
Every training decays without reinforcement, which is why Dementia Steady ships with a sustainment layer: one five-minute scenario per caregiver per month, and a twenty-minute team huddle each quarter, designed to be run by your own supervisors. The skills stay warm because the reps never stop.
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.
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