About
“I didn’t start Seagull Health because I wanted to build a company. I started it because I couldn’t find answers for my own mother.”
Born from Lived Caregiving Experience
Seagull Health began with a caregiving experience that revealed how often seizure-related changes in dementia are mistaken for routine behavioral shifts. That insight guided the development of the Dementia Seizure Spectrum™, the framework that organizes how seizure activity can appear in daily care. This work led to SeizureSafe™ — a standardized neurological safety protocol now available for families navigating dementia at home, for functional and integrative medicine practitioners managing dementia-risk patients, and for senior living organizations raising the standard of resident care.
When my mother’s “dementia behaviors” turned out to be silent seizures, I realized the entire system had a blind spot. That realization fueled my doctoral research and the creation of the Dementia Seizure Spectrum™ — a clinical framework designed to close the diagnostic gap that standard dementia care leaves open.
Russ Barker, MHA, DHSc(c)
Founder, Seagull Health
The Mission: Ending the “Silent” Epidemic
Research indicates that up to 40 percent of events labeled as dementia behaviors may actually be seizure-related activity — and the majority goes unrecognized. We exist to close that diagnostic gap.
Seagull Health is building the new standard for neurological safety in dementia care — one that works at every level of the care system. For families, that means tools and training to recognize what standard care misses. For practitioners, it means a clinical protocol that connects biomarker findings to neurological observation. For senior living organizations, it means a standardized system that replaces clinical guesswork with documented evidence. The mission is the same across all three: stop labeling the brain’s activity as behavior and start responding to it with clinical precision.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve the safety and clarity of dementia care by giving families, practitioners, and senior living teams the clinical framework to recognize how seizure-related activity appears in daily life. A clearer understanding leads to better communication, safer environments, and more informed clinical decisions.
Our Values
Seagull Health is built on the belief that clear, practical communication saves lives in dementia care. We are committed to improving seizure recognition and neurological safety through education grounded in evidence and real-world practice. We pursue collaboration — among families, clinicians, care organizations, and researchers — because no single part of the care system can close this gap alone. And we hold deep respect for the lived experiences that reveal what research alone cannot: that the people closest to the patient are often the first to see what medicine misses
Ready to Connect
Seagull Health partners with functional and integrative medicine practitioners, senior living organizations, educators, clinicians, and researchers to advance neurological safety in dementia care. We welcome collaboration on practitioner training and protocol implementation, organizational system adoption, and research-supported initiatives that strengthen early identification and clinical communication.
Contact us to discuss a partnership or request a practitioner briefing.
The Dementia Seizure Spectrum™ is the clinical foundation. SeizureSafe™ is how you use it.
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