NEW RELEASE: Caring Through Chaos—Notebook for Dementia Caregivers
Launched at the 2025 Northern Virginia Dementia Care Consortium
We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of our newest book, Caring Through Chaos: Notebook for Dementia Caregivers, co-authored by Barbara J. Huelat and Ruth Shea.
This essential notebook was unveiled today at the 2025 Northern Virginia Dementia Care Consortium, one of the region’s most trusted gatherings for dementia caregivers, professionals, and advocates. We were honored to introduce the book directly to those who need it most.
Caring Through Chaos is designed as a practical, deeply personal tool to help caregivers preserve the story, history, preferences, and personhood of someone living with dementia. It offers gentle structure, guided prompts, and the space to record what truly matters—what comforts, what delights, what soothes, what sparks connection.
Created for both home caregivers and care-facility teams, this notebook helps ensure that every person living with dementia is known, understood, and cared for with dignity.
The Caregiver’s Compass: 100+ Tips & Strategies for a Smoother Dementia Journey
$15.00
This pocket-sized guide offers over 100 practical, bite-sized tips across essential caregiving topics—from communication and mealtimes to hygiene and wandering. Whether you need a quick idea or a confidence boost, this book meets you in the moment with clarity, compassion, and proven advice.
This Is Me: A Guide to Person-Centered Care
$26.00
Designed for professional and family caregivers alike, This Is Me is a powerful tool for preserving identity and dignity. With space to record the personal history, routines, joys, and preferences of someone living with dementia, it ensures care remains deeply human—because knowing the person behind the diagnosis makes all the difference.
📖 Foundational Resources
Taming the Chaos of Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide to Interventions That Make a Difference
$35.00
The cornerstone of our series, this book blends professional insight with lived experience to offer real-world, non-pharmacological interventions for common dementia challenges. Grounded in empathy and evidence, it’s a vital companion for caregivers seeking to reduce stress, spark moments of joy, and create calm amidst the chaos.
Dementia Caregiver’s Journal: Caring Through Chaos
$15.00
Caregiving is emotional terrain—and this prompted journal offers a safe space to explore it all. With thoughtful prompts for reflection, gratitude, self-care, and moments of joy, it’s both a companion and a coping tool. Whether used alongside Taming the Chaos or on its own, it honors your journey and helps you find meaning along the way.
Barbara Huelat Interview at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands on Taming the Chaos if Dementia
October 21, 2024
Check Your EyesDid you know that blindness or low vision affects 3.3 million Americans age 40 and over? Alexandria Times
February 15, 2024
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Orthodox Diocese Features Barbara's Personal Dementia Journey in The Messenger Newsletter
November 27, 2023
Without Change, Our Graying Society Will Continue to Age Itself Into Poverty -
Barbara Huelat Quoted in AOL, MSN, and GoBankingRates
November 30, 2023
Barbara Huelat Shares Tips for Enjoying the Holidays with
Loved Ones in
Alzheimer's Caregivers
November 27, 2023
Barbara Huelat Approach to Design for Wellness Featured in
Elephant Journal
November 21, 2023
Barbara Huelat, Winner of the 2023 Changemaker Award, Featured in
Healthcare Design Magazine
November 14, 2023
Barbara Huelat, Winner of the 2023 Changemaker Award, Featured in
Healthcare Design Magazine
November 14, 2023
Press Release: Barbara Huelat 2023 Changemaker Award Featured in Digital Journal
November 2, 2023
Barbara Huelat on What to Expect as a Caregiver in Suburban Family Magazine
October 31, 2023
Barbara Huelat on Reducing Caregiver Stress Featured in Authority Magazine
October 7, 2023
Barbara Huelat on Caregiver Depression Featured in Authentic Insider Magazine
October 1, 2023
Published Articles
Barbara's work has also been published in the following outlets:
Medicina 2020
Currently, one in eight people over the age of 65 have dementia, and approximately 75% of caregiving is provided by volunteer family members with little or no training. This study aimed to quantify points of stress for home-based caregivers with the aim of reducing stress for them while concurrently supporting quality of life for the people with dementia whom they cared for. The overreaching purpose was to increase our knowledge of the caregiver stress burden and explore potential technologies and behaviors to ease it.
Journal of Greenbuilding, Summer 2008
Biophilia is defined as a love of the living world. We seek nature, especially when we don't feel well. Nature can calm us with a beautiful sunset or invigorate us with a spring rain. Both ancient and modern people use nature in healing. Nature has always offered healing places: a sacred spring, a reflective pond, a quiet grove, and majestic peaks. For centuries we have sought these sanctuaries in our quest for health and healing.
The Center for Health Design
Wayfinding is a person’s spatial behavior or orientation. Spatial orientation is the static relationship to space or the environment. The concept of spatial orientation is the predecessor of wayfinding. This relationship requires the user to form an overall mental image of the layout of the place. This image is referred to as the cognitive map of the setting. Cognitive mapping concerns the ability to visualize a map, and wayfinding uses the cognitive-mapping process to solve location-based problems.
Unlike spatial orientation with its static relationship to space, wayfinding is a dynamic relationship to the space. It is dynamic in that people’s movement with their direct sense of orientation to place must be accommodated.