FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS, PROFESSIONAL CAREGIVERS, OFWs, AND CARE TEAMS
You are not failing at caregiving. You were never taught how dementia changes the brain.
Care Academe helps you understand difficult dementia behaviors, respond without constant arguments, protect your own well-being, and provide safer, more dignified care through the practical DUCP method.
FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS, PROFESSIONAL CAREGIVERS, OFWs, AND CARE TEAMS
You are not failing at caregiving. You were never taught how dementia changes the brain.
Care Academe helps you understand difficult dementia behaviors, respond without constant arguments, protect your own well-being, and provide safer, more dignified care through the practical DUCP method.
Meet Care Academe
A practical dementia care training program built around real homes, real behaviors, and real Filipino family experiences.
Care Academe is the structured online training program of Dementia Up Close & Personal, created to help caregivers move from reacting in fear to responding with calm, skill, and understanding.
This is not a course filled with medical terms that families cannot use.
It teaches you what to do when the person:
Repeats the same question
Refuses to bathe
Becomes angry during care
Asks to go home
Wanders or tries to leave
Stops sleeping at night
Refuses food
Becomes suddenly more confused
Accuses people of stealing
No longer recognizes familiar people
You will learn how to look beneath the behavior, identify possible unmet needs, recognize medical warning signs, communicate without constant correction, and create a safer care environment.
Dementia care becomes harder when no one explains what the behavior means
But patience alone does not tell you:
Why the person is suddenly shouting
Why bathing feels frightening
Why correcting them makes the argument worse
Why behavior changes late in the afternoon
Why sudden confusion may be a medical red flag
Why the main caregiver is becoming resentful or exhausted
How to organize family responsibilities before conflict grows
Care Academe gives you a clear system for understanding what may be happening and deciding what to do next.
Everything you need to care with more clarity, safety, and confidence
Your enrollment gives you more than video lessons. It gives you a complete dementia care learning system.
10 progressive learning modules
Learn the foundations of dementia, communication, personal care, safety, family dynamics, professional boundaries, behavior support, advance planning, and care management.
Learn how to respond to:
Wandering and exit-seeking
Sundowning
Aggression and agitation
Repetitive questions
Bathing refusal
Eating and swallowing concerns
Toileting and incontinence
Sleep reversal
Hoarding and hiding
Hallucinations and sudden confusion
Receive practical language for difficult moments, including what to say when the person:
Wants to go home
Refuses care
Becomes frightened
Repeats questions
Accuses someone
Resists bathing or dressing
Also includes professional scripts for communicating with families, agencies, and doctors.
Practice the DUCP method through real-world scenarios involving:
Sundowning
Bath resistance
Night wandering
Delirium
Caregiver burnout
Family conflict
Hospital transitions
Medication concerns
Reinforce each lesson through short quizzes and complete a final assessment designed to test both understanding and caregiving judgment.
Learners who meet the stated completion and assessment requirements receive a digital Care Academe Certificate of Completion.
Avoid saying the certificate is “internationally recognized” unless a specific accrediting or regulatory body has formally recognized it.
Built from real dementia care experience, not generic theory
About the Educator
Meet, Ellen Samson!
Ms. Ellen Samson is a dementia speaker, geriatric care manager, Certified Dementia Practitioner, and caregiver advocate dedicated to helping families navigate the emotional, practical, and relational challenges of dementia care. With extensive experience in senior care management, dementia care, home care, case management, and family dynamics support, she has become a trusted voice for caregivers seeking clarity, compassion, and skill in one of life’s most difficult journeys. Public profiles identify her as the CEO of American Geriatric Care Management, a licensed home care organization and full-service care management company, and note her training in dementia care approaches associated with Teepa Snow’s Positive Physical Approach to Care.
Through Ellen Samson Dementia Speaker, Dear Ellen, and Dementia: Up Close and Personal, Ms. Samson educates families, professional caregivers, and community leaders on dementia communication, caregiver resilience, care planning, safety, dignity, and family dynamics. Her work combines professional expertise with deep human understanding, helping caregivers move from fear and confusion toward confidence, preparation, and hope. Her advocacy continues to build bridges among families, care teams, and communities, creating practical pathways for better dementia care.
From confusion to confidence, one practical lesson at a time
Care Academe guides you from the foundations of dementia to professional-level care planning and coordination.
Module 1: Understanding Dementia
Understand what dementia is, how it changes the brain, how it differs from normal aging, and why behavior changes.
Key transformation:
Stop taking dementia behavior personally.
Module 2: Communication and Relational Care
Learn how to use validation, reassurance, simple language, redirection, and emotionally safe communication.
Key transformation:
Stop trying to win the argument. Start lowering the distress.
Module 3: Daily Care and Activities of Daily Living
Learn how to support bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting, grooming, mobility, and personal care with dignity.
Key transformation:
Complete care without making the person feel controlled or humiliated.
Module 4: Safety and the Care Environment
Learn how lighting, sound, clutter, room layout, fall risks, exits, and routines affect behavior and safety.
Key transformation:
Create a home that supports the changing brain.
Module 5: Family Dynamics and Emotional Resilience
Understand Filipino family roles, sibling conflict, anticipatory grief, guilt, difficult decisions, and family meetings.
Key transformation:
Replace blame and silent resentment with clearer roles and shared responsibility.
Module 6: Ethics, Boundaries and Professionalism
Learn confidentiality, privacy, documentation, scope of work, caregiver identity, and professional boundaries.
Key transformation:
Move beyond “tagabantay” and begin working as a responsible Care Professional.
Module 7: Specialized Dementia Care Challenges
Learn practical responses to wandering, sundowning, delirium, aggression, sleep problems, repetitive behavior, eating issues, toileting concerns, and bathing resistance.
Key transformation:
Know what to observe, what to try, and when the situation needs medical assessment.
Module 8: Advance Care Planning and Coordination
Learn how to prepare for appointments, manage medication information, navigate hospitalization, support discharge, coordinate specialists, and understand comfort care.
Key transformation:
Stop reacting only to today. Start preparing for what may come next.
Module 9: Professional Care Management
Learn assessment, care planning, documentation, family mediation, healthcare navigation, and advocacy.
Key transformation:
See the whole care journey, not only the current task.
Module 10: Reflection, Case Studies and Assessment
Connect everything through case studies, situational judgment, reflection, and the DUCP See–Think–Act method.
Key transformation:
Turn lessons into professional caregiving judgment.
You do not need to keep figuring out dementia care alone.
The goal is to become a caregiver who understands more, reacts less, protects dignity, and knows when to ask for help.
The person may still repeat questions.
Refuse care.
Become confused.
Or ask to go home.
But you can enter that moment with more understanding, a clearer process, and a safer response.
Care Academe gives you the training to observe first, look for the need, recognize medical warning signs, communicate calmly, and protect both the person and the caregiver.
Care Academe Core Training
For Only $299 Now!
Regular Price at $399
Includes:
Complete access to all 10 modules
Practical dementia care lessons
Quizzes and final assessment
Digital Certificate of Completion
Community access according to program terms
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
No. Care Academe is designed for both beginners and experienced caregivers. The lessons begin with the foundations and gradually move into more advanced care planning and coordination.
No. The program is also for family caregivers, spouses, adult children, OFWs supporting parents from abroad, healthcare students, agency staff, and community workers.
Care Academe is self-paced. Completion time depends on how many lessons the learner takes each week.
Add an estimated study time only after calculating the actual total video and reading duration.
You will receive lifetime access to the version of the training included with your enrollment, subject to the platform’s terms.
Yes. Learners who complete the required modules and meet the final assessment requirement will receive a digital Care Academe Certificate of Completion.
The certificate confirms course completion. It does not replace a government license, nursing qualification, medical credential, or regulated professional certification.
No. Care Academe does not train learners to diagnose or prescribe treatment. It teaches you how to observe changes, support the person, communicate concerns, recognize warning signs, and know when medical assessment may be needed.
No. The program supports dementia care education. It does not replace medical, nursing, therapy, emergency response, or other licensed professional training.
A passing score of 80% is required to successfully complete the program. If you do not achieve the passing score on your first attempt, you may review the relevant lessons and retake the assessment according to the program's retake policy.
The goal is not to become a perfect caregiver
But you do not have to enter
every difficult moment without a plan.
Learn the DUCP method and begin caring
with more clarity, safety, and confidence.
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