by Jen Dowda | Oct 2, 2024 | Dowda Senior Consultants Blog
What is the maximum capacity for a human heart to experience and show love? Can you reach a point where you love so much that your heart is full and you can’t add any more? I was terrified of this when I was pregnant with my second child, sure that I could...
by Jen Dowda | Oct 2, 2024 | Helpful Tips, Uncategorized
One of my favorite things, when I tour a community, is seeing the residents sharing lunch together. It brings a huge smile to my face to see the friendships that residents at a community have developed with each other. Everyone comes into an independent or assisted...
by Jen Dowda | Oct 2, 2024 | Dowda Senior Consultants Blog, Uncategorized
What words describe how you feel when you are doing something well? Accomplished, satisfied, confident, successful, energized? What words describe how you feel about your caregiving experience? Cue the grimace emoji! As a dementia care consultant, the answer to the...
by Jen Dowda | Oct 2, 2024 | Dowda Senior Consultants Blog, Uncategorized
Today we celebrate “National I Want You to be Happy Day”, which gives each of us the opportunity to brighten someone’s day through simple acts of kindness and selflessness. As such, Dowda highlights our dear and lovely friend, Julie, who is an...
by Jen Dowda | Oct 2, 2024 | Dowda Senior Consultants Blog, Uncategorized
Taking care of a loved one who has dementia, physical disabilities or other age-related conditions makes demands on your time, energy and emotions — demands that, as the Cleveland Clinic warns, “can easily seem overwhelming.” That’s under normal...
by Jen Dowda | Oct 2, 2024 | Dowda Senior Consultants Blog, Uncategorized
CLIENT SITUATION Janet and her 5 siblings realized that their mother Helen was living neither successfully nor safely in her home. She was temporarily staying with Janet’s brother after a bad fall, when they contacted Dowda Senior Consultants. Helen STRONGLY wished to...
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