Free dementia caregiver learning
Free dementia education for the people who care every day.
Caring for someone living with dementia can be deeply meaningful, but it can also bring uncertainty, difficult decisions, and moments when the next right step is hard to see. These 16 free courses were created for family members, friends, and loved ones who are learning, adapting, and showing up day after day.
Why this learning is free
Caregivers already give their time, energy, patience, and love. Cost should not stand between them and practical information that may help them feel more prepared and less alone.
Your care makes an extraordinary difference.
Caregivers protect dignity, preserve familiar routines, speak up when something is wrong, and help the person they love remain connected to the life and relationships that matter to them. Much of this work happens quietly. It may not always be recognized, but it is essential.
We also know that love does not automatically provide every answer. Dementia can change communication, judgment, safety, health, and family roles. Caregivers deserve clear information they can return to when a new question or difficult moment arises.
Education is the way Complify Learning knows how to help. We offer this series freely as a practical expression of our commitment to caregivers: to respect the work you do, to make trustworthy guidance easier to reach, and to remind you that support is available throughout the journey.
Free Dementia caregiver course catalog
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Free family courses
| Course | Course overview | Course link |
|---|---|---|
| A Diagnosis of Dementia: The First Weeks and Months for Caregivers | This course gives family caregivers an ordered plan for the first weeks and months after a dementia diagnosis. Learners will clarify what was diagnosed, prepare for medical follow-up, ask useful medication and treatment questions, record a practical baseline, build a written care plan, organize important records, protect the person’s voice, address early planning and safety needs, and build support for the months ahead. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Making Sense of the Diagnosis - Part 1 | Part 1 gives family caregivers a clear framework for understanding the words in a dementia diagnosis. It separates the broad syndrome from the likely cause, explains common dementia-type patterns, and clarifies how stage and current abilities describe different parts of the diagnostic picture. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Making Sense of the Diagnosis - Part 2 | Part 2 deepens understanding of diagnosis language by placing symptoms in context. It compares normal aging with dementia, explains different patterns of change, clarifies diagnostic certainty and mixed causes, and corrects myths that can distort what a diagnosis does and does not mean. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Your New Role as a Care Partner | This course helps family caregivers shift into a care partner role that supports rather than takes over. Learners use the least help that works, preserve meaningful independence and choice, observe changing needs with clear facts, and establish respectful boundaries with shared backup plans. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Communicating After the Diagnosis | This course helps family caregivers communicate with dignity and clarity after a dementia diagnosis. Learners practice including the person in conversations, responding to denial or limited insight, giving reminders without embarrassment, and managing early disagreements while recognizing safety, medical, legal, and emergency boundaries. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Planning While Your Loved One Can Participate | This course helps family caregivers begin important planning conversations while a person with dementia can still participate meaningfully. Learners protect the person's voice, distinguish support from control, identify legal and financial arrangements that may need attention, prepare advance care and future living preferences, organize records, and turn unresolved questions into a usable plan. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Planning Ahead: Legal and Financial Basics | This course helps family caregivers preserve the person’s voice, distinguish assistance from legal authority, understand common planning documents, select and support trustworthy representatives, organize records, maintain transparent financial systems, respond to exploitation, plan for care costs, and prepare for qualified professional advice. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Independence, Driving, and Safety | This course helps family caregivers balance independence with protection from serious harm. Learners evaluate risk, recognize driving changes, strengthen medication and financial safeguards, assess whether living alone remains appropriate, prepare for emergencies, recognize urgent danger, and create a written safety and independence plan. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Building Your Support Network - Part 1 | This course helps family caregivers make the full caregiving workload visible, map dependable informal support, assign realistic roles, make specific requests, conduct focused family meetings, communicate with appropriate privacy, and protect the primary caregiver before the arrangement becomes unsustainable. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Building Your Support Network - Part 2 | This course helps family caregivers match needs with qualified professionals, coordinate care across settings, find and evaluate community services and respite, prepare confirmed backup caregivers, plan for caregiver emergencies, and recognize when the current support arrangement needs professional reassessment or a higher level of care. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Living Well Together | This course helps family caregivers support daily comfort, purpose, relationships, health, and identity while adapting to change. Learners choose meaningful activities, build flexible routines, protect important relationships, respond to caregiver emotions, notice when needs have changed, and create a practical living-well plan. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| When a Loved One Wanders or Gets Confused at Night | This course helps family caregivers understand why wandering, exit-seeking, nighttime confusion, and sleep disruption may occur. Learners identify triggers, document patterns, reduce preventable risk, respond calmly, prepare for a missing-person emergency, protect caregiver sleep, and build a coordinated safety plan. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Recognizing Pain and Discomfort | This course helps family caregivers recognize possible pain and physical discomfort, compare changes with the person’s usual baseline, ask simple questions, document specific evidence, use approved comfort measures, communicate with the healthcare team, and recognize urgent or emergency concerns. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Caring for Yourself While Caring for Them | This course helps family caregivers protect their health and maintain a sustainable caregiving role. Learners identify the complete workload, recognize strain and safety threats, respond to grief and guilt, establish realistic boundaries, ask for specific help, use respite and professional support, and prepare for caregiver unavailability or a change in care setting. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| When Family Disagrees: Working Together as a Caregiving Team | This course helps family caregivers work through disagreement while keeping the person living with dementia at the center of the care plan. Learners identify conflict mechanisms, separate facts from interpretations and emotions, clarify decision authority, assign reliable responsibilities, conduct focused family meetings, apply structured workflows to high-stakes decisions, and recognize when professional or protective support is needed. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
| Navigating the Final Stages with Comfort and Care | Final-stage dementia is a broad term. It often means major loss of speech, movement, swallowing, and self-care. The person may need help at all hours. Not every person has the same changes. Other illness, pain, medicine, sleep, and the care setting can also affect ability. | Open free course (opens in a new tab) |
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