Preparing With Clarity (Next Steps After a Dementia Diagnosis)

After a dementia diagnosis, knowing where to begin matters.

A dementia diagnosis can change daily life, relationships, decisions, and the future a person imagined. Yet after diagnosis, people are often given information without a practical path for what to do next. Preparing With Clarity: Next Steps After a Dementia Diagnosis provides a place to begin.

Written first for the person living with dementia, while also supporting the people they trust, Preparing With Clarity: Next Steps After a Dementia Diagnosis offers a practical preparedness pathway for life after diagnosis. Grace Walfall helps readers identify what deserves attention, organize important information and support, and begin preparing without trying to address everything at once.

Through practical explanations, guided reflection, and usable tools, readers learn how to create a personal Home Base for important information, strengthen a dependable support network, build and work with a care team, prepare for appointments, navigate healthcare systems, and communicate preferences and important wishes so the person’s voice remains visible as circumstances change.

Grace Walfall is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and a Certified Dementia Champion and Dementia Educator with Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care®. She brings more than 20 years of healthcare and public health leadership experience to her work. As Founder and CEO of Living With Change – Dementia Consultants, she combines dementia education, healthcare operations, and practical systems thinking to help people navigate life after a dementia diagnosis with greater structure and preparedness.

Preparing With Clarity: Next Steps After a Demetia Diagnosis does not ask readers to prepare for everything at once. For people living with dementia and those who support them, it offers a structured way to move from diagnosis to direction, one steady step at a time, while keeping the person living with dementia at the center.