For residential care homes
Lifelong preferences can get lost when someone moves into care. ADHDementia helps care teams and families explore what matters to the person, with practical training, life-history tools and on-site reviews. An ADHD lens can prompt better questions. It cannot diagnose a resident or explain every change.
Ask what has mattered throughout the person's life and what they want now.
Consider preferences, the environment and health. Record what you know and what remains uncertain.
Agree a practical change, then ask the person and team how it worked.
Life before the care plan
A busy dining room, an early bedtime or a group activity may suit one person and feel uncomfortable to another. Life history can help a team understand those differences.
For a person with ADHD, familiar routines or ways of organising daily life may be especially important. We should explore that possibility without assuming that an unfamiliar preference means ADHD, or that a new difficulty is simply a lifelong trait.
Consider a fictional example: someone keeps important belongings where they can see them. Before tidying them away, ask what purpose they serve. Familiarity, convenience and memory prompts are all possibilities. The useful starting point is the conversation.
Founder Kerry Billson has ADHD and eight years of care-home experience. Her mother's experience of dementia led her to question how well standard routines fit people with different preferences. That question informed her MSc dissertation at the University of Hull. Kerry has passed her MSc and is awaiting the official award documentation. She has applied for a PhD, with a planned start in January 2027.
ADHDementia helps teams explore the person behind the care plan. Its tools support conversations, its training offers practical exercises, and its consultancy helps homes plan and review changes.
What you will find here
A free way to record life-history conversations, from the person's own perspective or a supporter's account. It summarises answers without assigning an ADHD score or diagnosis.
Try the toolA care plan records what is done to a person. The Personhood Profile records who they are. Working life, music that reaches them, dates that matter, what helps and what makes things worse, distilled into a one page care card for the bedroom door. Free for families, £49 a month for a home.
See the profileLive training for care staff, on site or online, plus consultancy for managers and groups who want to embed ADHD-aware dementia care across their organisation. Practical discussions, fictional scenarios and action planning.
See the optionsFree research summaries and insights on ADHD in later life, the ADHD and dementia connection, and what person-centred care really looks like for neurodivergent older adults.
Read the blogDownloadable, practical guides for care teams and families, from sensory-friendly environments to care plan templates that reframe "challenging behaviour" as unmet neurodivergent need.
Browse the guidesA practical next step
Our free introduction is on Friday 9 October, 1–1:45pm UK time, on Teams. Explore three fictional care-home scenarios and take away questions to use in a team discussion.
This is educational training. It is not accredited, does not replace mandatory training or clinical assessment, and carries no promise of an inspection rating.
How it works
Use the reflection tool to record what someone tells you about their life. Keep their own account distinct from other people's observations.
Explore the environment, communication and routines. Identify what is longstanding, what has changed, and what needs clinical advice.
Agree an adjustment with the person and review its effect. Team training or an on-site review can help you organise that work and produce a practical action plan.
New
In this fictional composite example, her notes say "pleasant, compliant, requires assistance with personal care". Nobody on shift this evening knows the rest. The Personhood Profile exists so that they do, and so that a person can write it themselves long before anyone has to guess on their behalf.
Free for the person and their family, always. For a care home it is £49 a month whatever your size, with a fortnight free first and no card. Everything stays on your own device: we hold no copy and could not read a profile if we wanted to. It sits alongside your statutory care plan rather than replacing any part of it.
The screening tool is free to use, with no sign-up and no card. Use it to start a conversation and identify questions to explore together.