Online course
An interactive course for care home staff. About one hour, six modules, a short assessment, and a certificate at the end.
Care home membership
Ask your manager for the key. It is the same one your home uses for the training matrix and the Personhood Profile, it is entered once on this device and then remembered, and there is no account to create.
This course is in accreditation and opens to members shortly. In the meantime the live two hour webinar covers the same curriculum and runs twice a month, and Personhood Profile subscribers already have a key.
This course introduces the essentials of recognising and supporting ADHD traits in older adults living with dementia. It is designed for all care home staff, from carers and nurses to housekeeping, kitchen and activities teams, because every role shapes a resident's day. Work through the six modules in order, answer the knowledge checks as you go, and pass a short final assessment to receive your certificate.
Your name and your home go on your certificate and into the record your manager keeps. They stay on this device and are never sent to ADHDementia. There is no account to create and no email address to give.
These references support the research-informed content used in the course. They are provided for quality assurance and course development and do not need to be read during normal learner progression.
Boonstra et al. (2005), Executive functioning in adult ADHD: a meta-analytic review. Psychological Medicine, 35(8), 1097-1108. PMID: 16116936. Alderson et al. (2013), ADHD and working memory in adults: a meta-analytic review. Neuropsychology, 27(3), 287-302. PMID: 23688211.
Beheshti et al. (2020), Emotion dysregulation in adults with ADHD: a meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 20, 120. PMID: 32164655. Soler-Gutiérrez et al. (2023), Evidence of emotion dysregulation as a core symptom of adult ADHD: a systematic review. PLOS ONE, 18(1), e0280131. PMID: 36608036.
Jurek et al. (2025), Sensory Processing in Individuals With ADHD Compared With Control Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 64(10), 1132-1147. PMID: 40250555. The review found higher sensory sensitivity, avoidance, seeking and low registration across ADHD samples.
Bruton et al. (2025), Diminished Interoceptive Awareness in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review. Psychophysiology, 62(2), e14750. The evidence is emerging and mixed, so care implications should be framed as possibilities rather than universal ADHD traits.
Díaz-Román, Mitchell & Cortese (2018), Sleep in adults with ADHD: systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews, 89, 61-71. PMID: 29477617. Bijlenga/Kooij and colleagues also describe delayed circadian timing in subgroups of adults with ADHD; sleep history should be individualised.
Modules unlock in order. You can leave at any time and your progress is saved on this device.
Answer every knowledge check above to continue.
Ten questions drawn from the whole course. You need 8 out of 10 to pass. You can retake the assessment as many times as you need.
You have completed ADHD Awareness in Dementia Care. Print your certificate below, or save it as a PDF for your training records.
Tip: choose "Save as PDF" in the print window to keep a digital copy.
Your home has to be able to show that you did this training. Press the button below and a small record file downloads. Email it to your manager, or drop it on the office computer, and they add it to the home's training matrix in one click. It contains your name, your home, the date and your score, and nothing else.
No email address, no account, no copy held by us. If you would rather not send a file, your printed certificate carries the same Certificate ID and your manager can type it in by hand.