You’ve found a place to start your dementia care journey
The Dementia care guide that walks with you through every stage
From the first signs of Dementia to finding the right care home, we help you stay informed, stay organised, and make confident decisions at every step.
Navigating the journey together
Diagnosis
Understanding dementia types, getting assessed, what the diagnosis means, and your first steps forward.
Explore resourcesHome care
Arranging help at home, choosing carers, adapting your living space, and managing day-to-day safely.
Explore resourcesIncreased support
When care needs grow, understanding your options for respite, specialist services, and funding.
Explore resourcesDementia care homes
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Researching, visiting, and comparing care homes. Our directory covers the most highly rated care homes in England (Welsh and Scottish care homes are being added).
Settling in
Helping your loved one adjust, building relationships with staff, and staying connected as a family.
Explore resourcesEnd-of-life care
Planning ahead with dignity, understanding palliative options, and finding support for the whole family.
Explore resourcesThe dementia care guide that should have existed years ago.
The six-stage structure — vital
The fastest way to focus
is to know exactly where you are.
| Six stages | Each stage is mapped to the decisions that matter most right now — not the ones that matter later. |
| Select your stage | in the accordion above and go straight to what applies to you. Nothing else. No wading through content written for someone at a different point. |
| The map changes as your situation changes | When you move to the next stage, your resources move with you. |
Dementia care is a fifteen-year process. Every stage has different priorities, different decisions, and different things that cannot wait. Most adult children spend months managing the wrong things because nobody told them which stage they were at.
Most adult children tell us they wished they had started here. The ones who did saved months.
Select your stage now
Fast action checklists — unusual
Not advice.
The exact next steps — for your stage.
| Stage-specific checklists | They tell you what to do first, what can wait, and what has a closing window you may not know about. |
| Printable and portable | Take the checklist to the GP appointment, the solicitor, the care home visit. It does the work of explaining your situation so you don't have to. |
| Built from real family reviews | not regulatory frameworks. The twelve questions families say actually matter. The three legal protections most adult children miss. The four-week settling-in tracker that tells you whether everything is working before a problem becomes a pattern. |
| One step at a time | The checklist shows you what is in front of you. Not everything that is coming. Not everything that has already passed. |
Every stage comes with a fast-action checklist built from the experience of 3,602 families. Not editorial opinion. Not government guidance. What families who have been at your stage actually did — and what they wished they had done sooner.
The families who used these checklists stopped guessing. That is what they told us afterwards.
The record nobody else keeps – exclusive
Everything that matters.
In one place. Always yours.
| A private care journal | — structured, searchable, unlimited. Every observation, every conversation, every decision. Dated and retrievable when you need it. |
| A medication log and incident record | — formatted for clinical use. One click produces a GP summary, a social worker briefing, and a care home handover document. In plain language. In the format each person needs. |
| Monthly pattern analysis. | Our AI reads your entries and reports back — what it noticed, what it might mean, and one thing worth watching next month. Not a chatbot. A monthly letter from someone who has been reading your notes carefully. |
| The record gets more valuable over time. | At year three, it contains what no clinician, no care home, and no solicitor has: a complete, dated, evidential account of how your parent's condition has changed — in your words. |
| One-to-one support | is available when the record alone is not enough. A call with a DCC advisor who reads what you have written before picking up the phone. |
Your GP has clinical notes. The care home has its own logs. You have worry. None of these talk to each other — and none of them hold what you actually know: what changed last Tuesday, what was said in March, what was promised in January.
There is no other product in dementia care that does this. That is not marketing. It is simply true.
Robin's Pick • 2026 Dementia Awards
The Dementia care homes where families said: "She's well looked after"
Dementia Care: Finding Them Again
Nobody handed you a manual
So we wrote one
The wall comes down. Briefly. Then it goes back up
A song comes on. A photograph appears. The cat settles onto the sofa. And the person you thought you'd lost looks at you with recognition, real recognition, for the first time in weeks. You didn't imagine it. It happened. And it can happen again.
This book exists because of that moment.
They're still in there, behind the wall.
A song, a scent, a touch — that's all.
Dementia care gifts that help
The Thoughtful Gift That Makes a Difficult Day Easier
The things that make the greatest difference to someone living with dementia are rarely the most obvious ones. They are the things that ease the day — that give a carer a moment to breathe, or give the person they care for a moment of calm or quiet joy. Every item here was chosen because it works, and because it reduces stress for everyone in the room.
Stop Guessing Which Care Home Is Right
Download our free evaluation toolkit: three essential checklists that help you screen, evaluate, and compare care homes systematically – not desperately.
