The bottleneck isn't the training

The headline finding is the good news: a dementia-caregiver course built for the clinic worked over video, too. Anxiety eased, depression eased. The honest findings sit lower in the paper. Sixty-five percent of caregivers needed hands-on technical help just to attend — and by three months, most of the gains were gone.

That second number is the whole game. We keep building caregiver support as if the content is the hard part. It isn't. The hard part is getting an overwhelmed daughter logged into the right portal at 9 p.m., and then keeping her supported long enough that the help sticks. A seven-session course that fades in twelve weeks isn't a program; it's a head start. What caregivers need isn't another curriculum to complete and close. It's a navigator who's still there in month four, when the first crisis the training never covered finally arrives.