See the person before the diagnosis
History, preferences, rhythms, relationships, sensory needs, and emotional safety all belong in the care picture.
Consultations and Online Training open
Family Support Services by referral only
Life Enrichment and Special Support services join waitlist.
Comfort · joy · peace of mind
Reimagining Dementia Services
Sparrows Care Collective helps families and care partners understand what is changing, work with the abilities that remain, and build daily rhythms that support dignity, independence, connection, and a life beyond caregiving.
Your first 30 minutes are complimentary. Online consultations are available.
Why Sparrows exists
There is a better way to support dementia.
Elder care has often been organized around tasks, schedules, and what a person can no longer do. Sparrows begins somewhere else: with the whole person—and with the caregivers whose quality of life directly shapes the quality of care.
Compassion matters. So do current science, careful observation, practical skill, and the willingness to change an approach that is no longer working. We help families preserve ability where possible, make difficult moments easier, and create more room for purpose, comfort, and connection.
Caregiver burnout is not a personal failure. Sustainable care must leave room for sleep, work, relationships, health, and joy.
Build from what remains
We look for abilities, familiar patterns, and environments that help the brain succeed with less stress.
Support the entire care partnership
A plan is only successful when it protects the well-being of both the person living with dementia and those supporting them.
Clearly defined support
Begin with only what you need.
Some families need one clear conversation. Others want us to build the plan, teach the approach, and stay involved as needs change. Our process is designed to meet families where they're at, not to push services they don't need.
Understand what is happening and what to try next.
We listen to the full situation, help identify patterns, and turn the conversation into practical next steps. A paid consultation includes individualized written recommendations, resource suggestions, and one follow-up within 30 days.
Initial conversationFirst 30 minutes complimentary
Dementia consultation$150 after 30 minutes
Additional follow-up$50 each
Choose guidance—or let us carry more of the planning.
Guided support may include routines, schedules, activity planning, general brain-health and meal-planning education, caregiver questions, forms, and transition preparation. Concierge support adds research, organization, document creation, scheduling, and follow-through on the family’s behalf.
Guided Family Support$40/hour
Concierge Family Support$50/hour
Turn science into tools you can use.
Family and professional care partners learn practical ways to understand brain change, communicate, approach, adapt tasks, and respond with less fear and frustration. All Sparrows training is online at this time. Separate waitlists are available for family and professional caregivers.
Online classes and trainingFree until further notice
RegistrationWaitlist open
Create meaningful days—not simply occupied time.
Life enrichment uses personal history, preferences, movement, music, meals, outings, creativity, and familiar roles to support purpose and connection. Event, travel, and transition support is planned individually; custom pricing and a planning deposit may apply.
Active Life Enrichment$40/hour
Comfort Companion visits$30/hour
Special eventsAsk for pricing · $100 deposit
Overnight travelAsk for pricing · $250 deposit
High-quality dementia support should be accessible to all.
Find your starting point
A complimentary first conversation, free online training, and both guided and concierge options offer more than one place to begin. Current clients also receive early access to new classes and practical tools as they are developed.
The dementia doula role
We help connect the pieces.
Medical providers address medical needs. Care staff work within care plans. Families hold the person’s history and relationships. A dementia doula helps turn those pieces into a calmer, more sustainable plan for daily life.
Listen & observe
We learn the person’s rhythms, preferences, communication, strengths, stress signals, environment, and the family’s real-life limits.
Adapt & plan
We shape routines, spaces, language, activities, and support tools around how the person’s brain is working now.
Teach & sustain
We help care partners understand the “why,” practice useful approaches, and build a plan that leaves room for their own lives.
Is Sparrows right for you?
Know what we do—and what we do not do.
Sparrows is not a traditional dementia service provider. We provide non-medical education, consultation, planning, training, and life-enrichment support.
Sparrows may be a strong fit when you want:
- Dementia education and help understanding changes in behavior, communication, or routine
- Meaningful life enrichment and practical ways to support purpose and remaining abilities
- Caregiver training and Positive Approach to Care®-informed strategies
- General brain-health, nutrition, meal-planning, movement, sleep, or stress education
- Guidance evaluating care options, preparing for transitions, or asking better questions
- Personalized schedules, forms, routines, comfort plans, and care-partner tools
- A more sustainable care rhythm that addresses burnout and protects family life
If your looking for these services, we can provide guidance:
- Bathing, dressing, toileting, transfers, or ongoing hands-on personal care
- Medication administration, skilled nursing, diagnosis, or medical treatment
- Physical or occupational therapy, mental-health treatment, or hospice
- Medical case management, licensed care coordination, or facility staffing
- A placement agency, caregiver-matching service, or emergency response
Current availability: Scarlet and Sierra are fully booked for Life Enrichment and Special Services, waitlist available. Until further notice, Family Support services are accepted only through personal referral. We are currently training canidates for our caregiver referral list; this page will be updated when a trusted network of independent contractors becomes available. Consultations remain open.
Positive Approach to Care®
Science made practical.
Positive Approach to Care® (PAC) helps care partners understand how brain change affects communication, movement, processing, and emotional response. The value is not theory alone—it is learning what to notice, how to adapt, and how to make use of the abilities that remain.
Scarlet Vildibill is a PAC Certified Independent Trainer and provides education for family caregivers and professional care partners. All training is online and complimentary until further notice.
For family care partners
Plain-language dementia education, communication and approach skills, task adaptation, meaningful engagement, and strategies for a more sustainable home life.
For professional care partners
Online training that connects brain change to real interactions and helps caregivers respond with more confidence, consistency, dignity, and practical skill.
For communities & agencies
Better systems begin with better understanding.
Sparrows is developing contracted resident consultation and in-person staff training for care communities and agencies. Directors and agency leaders are welcome to begin a planning conversation or join the interest list now; in-person scheduling will be released as capacity expands.
Our team
Different strengths. Shared standards.
Scarlet and Sierra work as professional partners, combining creative whole-person planning, hands-on care knowledge, sharp observation, and clinical perspective.
Scarlet Vildibill, Dementia Doula
Executive Director · Founder
Scarlet is a PAC Certified Independent Trainer who provides dementia-informed family guidance, life-enrichment planning, transition support, and caregiver education. Her background in hands-on caregiving, culinary arts, events, and creative planning shapes an approach centered on emotional safety, meaningful routines, dignity, and the person behind the diagnosis.
Sierra Dahmen, CNA
Director of Caregiver Development and Client Services
Sierra brings hands-on caregiving experience, a calm professional presence, strong observational skill, and a practical clinical perspective to client and family work. She helps shape Sparrows’ care practices, training ideas, and practical tools as a trusted partner whose precision complements Scarlet’s creative, whole-person approach.
Start with a conversation
You do not have to figure it out alone.
Tell us what feels difficult, what has changed, or what kind of support you are looking for. We will help you identify a sensible next step—even when that step is not a Sparrows service.