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Practical guides, ready to use on your next shift

Downloadable PDF guides that turn the research into everyday practice, written for busy care teams and families. Buy once, keep forever, share within your home.

Cover of the Care Plan Templates guide
PDF · 17 pages · for care homes

Care Plan Templates for ADHD Traits in Dementia

Twenty-seven pieces of care plan wording, three for each of the nine trait domains, written to be lifted into your own system and adapted. Each domain also gives the phrases to retire, a worked before and after from real daily notes, and what a reviewer should expect to see. Includes a language swap card and a front-page insert, both built to be photocopied.

£19
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Cover of The Sensory-Friendly Care Home guide
PDF · 18 pages · for care homes

The Sensory-Friendly Care Home

Seven rooms, from the bedroom to the small hours, with the causes of sensory distress you will actually find in each and fifty adjustments sorted cheapest first. Most are free. Every room names the department that needs telling and exactly what they need to know. Includes a printable twenty-six question environment audit and a page on getting the budget items approved.

£24
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Cover of the Communication Scripts guide
PDF · 14 pages · for care staff

Communication Scripts: The Need for Why

Six word for word scripts for the moments that go wrong most often: the medication round, personal care, mealtimes, getting up and going to bed, going out, and what to do when the answer is still no. Each gives what usually gets said, why it fails, and what to say instead. Includes a pocket card for the medication trolley.

£12
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Cover of the family guide, Seeing Mum or Dad Clearly
PDF · 13 pages · for families

Seeing Mum or Dad Clearly: A Family Guide

For sons, daughters and partners. Nine things you might recognise from a whole life rather than from the last few years, four things it does not mean including the one about guilt, the six things worth telling the care home, how to say them so they land, and what you can reasonably ask for.

£9
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Cover of the Know Me First handover workbook
PDF · 20 pages · for families · print and fill in

Know Me First: A Handover Workbook for Families

Print it, sit down with a biro, fill it in, hand it to the care home. Fourteen sections with real space to write: who she was before any of this, an ordinary day in her own rhythm, what she cannot bear, how to ask her to do things, what settles her, her room and her things. Plus the questions to ask at the admission meeting, a hospital page to keep by the front door, and a covering note for handing it over. Designed to print on any home printer in black and white.

£9
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The five guide covers side by side: Care Plan Templates, The Sensory-Friendly Care Home, Communication Scripts, Seeing Mum or Dad Clearly and Know Me First

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The complete set

All five guides, eighty-two pages, covering the words, the building, the conversation, the family and the handover. Everything published so far, in one download.

  • Care Plan Templates for ADHD Traits in Dementia
  • The Sensory-Friendly Care Home
  • Communication Scripts: The Need for Why
  • Seeing Mum or Dad Clearly: A Family Guide
  • Know Me First: A Handover Workbook for Families
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Buy all five for £49

Licensed across your whole organisation and all of your own staff.

How it works

1

Pay by card. You will get a receipt from Stripe straight away.

2

Kerry emails you the PDF, usually the same day and always within one working day.

3

Print it, share it with your team, use it across your own homes. The licence covers all of that.

Sent by a person rather than by a robot, which means you can reply and ask a question. Please do. If anything has not arrived, email kerry@adhdementia.com and it will be sorted the same day.

Care home groups can license the guides across multiple homes as standard, at no extra cost, so please just buy once. If you would like them delivered in person instead, everything in these guides is covered in the live webinar and on-site training.

Prefer it delivered in person?

Everything in these guides, and much more, is covered in our live training sessions for care teams.