Free Dementia Caregiver Guide | Fortivus
Free Resource · Caregiver Education Series

What No One Tells You Before You Become a Dementia Caregiver.

A free guide from two people who've been doing this for six years — and wish someone had handed them this on day one.

12M Family caregivers
in the U.S. right now
7M+ Americans living with
Alzheimer's or related dementia
24 hrs Per week — the average
caregiver's second job, without pay

If something has shifted — a conversation that felt off, a moment you keep replaying — you're already in it. This guide won't overwhelm you. It will tell you what's urgent, what can wait, and what most families miss until it's too late.

Free. Plain language. From people who've lived it.

What's inside this guide
Medical · Steps 1–4
Know what's happening. Speak the language. Be the advocate.
Financial · Steps 9–11
Know the numbers before someone else does.
Safety & Logistics · Steps 12–15
The crises you can see coming are the ones you can prevent.

People in the beginning of this journey need the most help. Nobody is giving you information. Nobody is telling you what comes next. You're just guessing and hoping you're not missing something critical.

Family Caregiver · Pacific Northwest · Active Caregiving
This guide is not
  • A clinical manual
  • Medical or legal advice
  • A replacement for professionals
  • A judgement on how you've done
  • Something to complete perfectly
This guide is
  • A map of what exists and what matters
  • Built from real caregiver experiences
  • Honest about urgent vs. what can wait
  • Designed to be shared with family
  • A starting point — not a final exam
From Shelly Niehaus, Co-Founder of Fortivus

Between us, three of our four parents are navigating cognitive decline. We have lived this — repeatedly, across six years, from 1,500 miles away — and made expensive, painful, and entirely avoidable mistakes along the way. We built this guide because we needed it and it didn't exist.

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