Caring for people with dementia is challenging.
Dementia Comfort offers free strategies for comfort-focused care, decision aids for late-stage care, and trainings for advance care planning skills.
Explore Our Dementia Care ResourcesWe are researchers based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose focus is on improving care and outcomes for people living with dementia and their family caregivers.
Meet Our Research TeamComfort First in Dementia Care
Teaches how to use the goal of comfort to reframe and to guide the care plan and daily care for people living with dementia.
Decision Aid for Goals of Care
Assists in sharing information about goals of care and treatment options with families of people with late-stage dementia. Assists in incorporating decisions into the plan of care.
Advance Care Planning
Builds skills to communicate and navigate advance care planning discussions for people with dementia and their family caregivers across all stages of dementia.