Our Purpose
Mission & Vision
Honest about where we are. Clear about where we are going.
How We Operate
A different kind of operation.
Front Porch of Bowdon is a licensed personal care home in West Georgia. The owner is a licensed RN who is present and involved in daily operations. We take residents that other facilities quietly decline: people with moderate to advanced dementia, behavioral presentations, and complex care needs that most communities are not built to handle.
We do this because we believe the residents who are hardest to place deserve a home that was built for them, not a facility that merely tolerates them.
Excellent resident care is only possible when the people providing it feel genuinely invested in their work. Staff investment and resident outcomes are not competing priorities. They are the same goal.
At a Glance
Licensed Personal Care Home
West Georgia, secured building
RN-Owned & Operated
Active RN license, hands-on daily
Takes the Hard Cases
Moderate to advanced dementia, behavioral presentations
Public Benefit Corp.
Georgia’s first public benefit senior living, est. 2022
501 Mitchell Ave
Bowdon, GA 30108
Core Values
What we stand for.
Ten principles that govern every decision made inside this building.
Unwavering Resident Focus
Uncompromising Care Standards
Enable Growth in Our Team
Give Back to the Community
Operate with Full Transparency
Treat Every Person with Dignity
Take the Hard Cases
Invest in Our Staff
Be Humble, Have Fun
Hold Ourselves Accountable
Project Rosewood
“Something that feels less like a hallway and more like a stroll through a small town.”
The physical embodiment of the mission.
Project Rosewood will transform the interior of the Bowdon community from a standard care facility hallway into something that feels like a neighborhood. Brick facades on interior walls. Lamp posts. Window boxes. Benches. A small streetscape that residents can walk through, sit in, and recognize as something from a life lived outside these walls.
The Goal Is Not Aesthetics. It Is Function.
People with dementia respond to environmental cues. A hallway that looks like a hallway communicates institution to a brain that may no longer understand where it is or why. A space that looks like a street corner or a small-town storefront communicates something the brain recognizes from decades of actual living.
When the environment feels familiar, residents are calmer, more oriented, more themselves. The space becomes part of the care. That is the design brief: build an environment that supports residents in living, not just one that contains them safely.
Where Things Stand
Status
Actively in development. Design and planning underway.
Investment Trigger
Census reaches 30 residents.
Why the milestone?
We want to do it right. Doing it right requires the resources that come from a full, healthy community.
Follow Along
Updates on Facebook as the concept develops. Every resident who joins brings us closer.
The Long View
The Dementia Village Direction
The Proof of Concept
Project Rosewood is the first step of a longer trajectory. The model it points toward has been proven overseas, at a facility in the Netherlands called Hogewey, known internationally as Dementia Village.
The concept: people with advanced dementia should be able to live an actual life, not simply exist in a secured space until they die. At Hogewey, residents can go to a grocery store, sit in a cafe, walk down a street, all within a safe, supervised environment. The physical world is designed to match the cognitive reality of the residents rather than forcing residents to adapt to a clinical one.
The question stops being “how do we keep these people safe?” and becomes “how do we help these people actually live?”
That is a fundamentally different design brief. And it produces fundamentally different outcomes.
Bringing It to Small-Town Georgia
Front Porch is working toward a version of this model built for Bowdon, Georgia, at a scale that makes sense for a community like ours. Not a replica of Hogewey, but the same philosophy applied here: an environment that treats dementia residents as people with lives worth living, not problems to be managed.
This is a long-term direction, not a current feature. What we are right now is a personal care home with a clinical owner, staff who stay, and a track record of taking the cases that other facilities decline. That foundation is what makes the longer vision possible.
The Rocking Chair Fund
Front Porch’s public benefit nonprofit arm, focused on senior advocacy and dementia research. As Front Porch grows, the Rocking Chair Fund is positioned to support this model through research partnerships and policy advocacy for Georgia’s personal care home regulations. That work is in its early stages.
Where We Are, Honestly
The gap between where we are and where we are going is not a weakness. It is the story.
We are a personal care home in Bowdon, Georgia. We do this work one resident at a time. We are not pretending to be further along than we are. Project Rosewood is where the vision becomes visible. Front Porch of Bowdon is where it starts.