Caring for the Caregiver 101
Caregiving 101 is designed for individuals caring for a loved one living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of cognitive decline. This course helps you understand the person behind the diagnosis while equipping you to navigate medical systems, shifting roles, and daily care decisions with clarity. Grounded in lived experience, this program moves beyond surface-level advice. You will explore the emotional impact of diagnosis, learn how to advocate within complex systems, and build language that supports both your loved one and yourself.
This is not a quick-fix course. It is a structured, reflective space where you gain practical tools, guided frameworks, and emotional grounding to move forward with steadiness and confidence.
By the end of this course, you will feel more equipped to:
See the person beyond the diagnosis
Communicate more effectively with medical professionals
Make care decisions under pressure
Hold space for your own grief, growth, and resilience
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Understanding Diagnosis & Medical Process
This module explores how caregiving changes over time. Caregivers will learn to recognize emotional, relational, and practical shifts, understand how roles evolve, and develop strategies to respond with compassion for both the person receiving care and themselves.
This module explores how caregiving changes over time. Caregivers will learn to recognize emotional, relational, and practical shifts, understand how roles evolve, and develop strategies to respond with compassion for both the person receiving care and themselves.
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Safety and Independency
This module helps caregivers understand and navigate the systems that shape care. Caregivers will learn how to prepare for medical appointments, advocate effectively, make informed decisions, and address safety concerns while keeping the person at the center of care.
This module helps caregivers understand and navigate the systems that shape care. Caregivers will learn how to prepare for medical appointments, advocate effectively, make informed decisions, and address safety concerns while keeping the person at the center of care.
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Meeting Them Where They Are
In this module, we move away from trying to control Alzheimer’s and toward learning how to live inside its unpredictability. This is where caregiving becomes less about fixing and more about adapting, deciding, and letting go of certainty.
You will learn how to meet your loved one where they are, reshape the environment to support safety and dignity, manage layered health challenges, and make decisions when there is no clear right answer.
In this module, we move away from trying to control Alzheimer’s and toward learning how to live inside its unpredictability. This is where caregiving becomes less about fixing and more about adapting, deciding, and letting go of certainty.
You will learn how to meet your loved one where they are, reshape the environment to support safety and dignity, manage layered health challenges, and make decisions when there is no clear right answer.
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Resources Toolkit
These printable and fillable tools are here to support you in real time. Use them daily, weekly, or whenever you need to stay organized, check in with yourself, or prepare for care-related appointments. You don’t have to do it all from memory — let these tools carry some of the weight.
These printable and fillable tools are here to support you in real time. Use them daily, weekly, or whenever you need to stay organized, check in with yourself, or prepare for care-related appointments. You don’t have to do it all from memory — let these tools carry some of the weight.
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