Dementia affects an estimated 55 million people worldwide. Tens of millions more serve as unpaid family caregivers. Despite the scale of the challenge, accessible, trustworthy, and well-organized information remains difficult to find in one place. That is the problem we set out to solve.
Today we are releasing Understanding Dementia — a comprehensive, free online guidebook designed to support families and caregivers navigating the complexities of dementia care. It is available immediately at netrii.com/built-by-us/dementia-liquid.
What the guidebook covers
Understanding Dementia spans 15 evidence-based chapters covering the full spectrum of dementia care:
- Introduction to dementia and its types
- Diagnosis and clinical assessment
- Daily living and caregiving strategies
- Managing behavioral changes
- Therapeutic interventions
- Legal and financial planning
- Home safety and modifications
- End-of-life stages and support
Every chapter is written at a 9th-to-10th-grade reading level with evidence-based guidance in plain language. The goal is practical utility, not clinical abstraction.
The Knowledge Portal
Alongside the guidebook, we built an interactive Dementia Knowledge Portal — a visual map of over 200 dementia-related concepts across 12 taxonomy categories. It gives users an intuitive way to explore and connect information that is normally scattered across dozens of sources.
The portal is built on a structured learning graph with dependency chains between concepts. It is the same methodology we use across all our intelligent textbooks — applied here to a domain where the stakes are personal and the need for clarity is highest.
Why we built this
"We wanted to build something genuinely useful for the people navigating one of the hardest situations a family can face. This guidebook puts evidence-based guidance in plain language — for free, and available to everyone."
— Richard Tanler, Netrii
Understanding Dementia is part of Netrii's Built by Us initiative — a series of public-good digital tools built to demonstrate the power of thoughtful AI technology applied to real human challenges. The underlying textbook was built by Rick Tanler using Dan McCreary's intelligent textbook methodology, with 200 concepts, interactive MicroSims, quizzes, and a glossary.
The same engineering patterns — learning graphs, concept taxonomies, interactive knowledge portals — that power our commercial work are applied here to a cause that matters. The technology is the same. The audience is different. The value is the same.
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