Our Purpose<\/p>\n<\/div>
Honest about where we are. Clear about where we are going.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\t\t\tMission<\/b><\/h4><\/div>
The daily obligation. Not a statement on a wall. The standard against which every decision gets measured.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\t\t\tVision<\/p>\n
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Not a boast about where we are now. An honest commitment to what we are building toward.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
How We Operate<\/p>\n<\/div>
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
At a Glance<\/p>\n
Licensed Personal Care Home<\/strong> RN-Owned & Operated<\/strong> Takes the Hard Cases<\/strong> Public Benefit Corp.<\/strong> 501 Mitchell Ave<\/strong> Core Values<\/p>\n<\/div> Ten principles that govern every decision made inside this building.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Unwavering Resident Focus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Uncompromising Care Standards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Enable Growth in Our Team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Give Back to the Community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Operate with Full Transparency<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Treat Every Person with Dignity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Take the Hard Cases<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Invest in Our Staff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Be Humble, Have Fun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hold Ourselves Accountable<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Project Rosewood<\/p>\n “Something that feels less like a hallway and more like a stroll through a small town.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> 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.<\/p>\n The Goal Is Not Aesthetics. It Is Function.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Where Things Stand<\/span><\/p>\n Status<\/strong> Investment Trigger<\/strong> Why the milestone?<\/strong> Follow Along<\/strong> The Long View<\/p>\n<\/div> The Proof of Concept<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The question stops being “how do we keep these people safe?” and becomes “how do we help these people actually live?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That is a fundamentally different design brief. And it produces fundamentally different outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Bringing It to Small-Town Georgia<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The Rocking Chair Fund<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Where We Are, Honestly<\/p>\n<\/div> 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>
West Georgia, secured building<\/p>\n
Active RN license, hands-on daily<\/p>\n
Moderate to advanced dementia, behavioral presentations<\/p>\n
Georgia’s first public benefit senior living, est. 2022<\/p>\n
Bowdon, GA 30108<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>What we stand for.<\/h2><\/div>
The physical embodiment of the mission.<\/h2><\/div>
\nActively in development. Design and planning underway.<\/p>\n
\nCensus reaches 30 residents.<\/p>\n
\nWe want to do it right. Doing it right requires the resources that come from a full, healthy community.<\/p>\n
\nUpdates on Facebook as the concept develops. Every resident who joins brings us closer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The Dementia Village Direction<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
The gap between where we are and where we are going is not a weakness. It is the story.<\/h2><\/div>