Brenda is a wife with 3 adult children, 4 bonus adult children, and 2 grandchildren.
When she is not working, she loves music, concerts, festivals, the Seahawks and mostly spending time with her husband.
Brenda started her career in the senior industry as a traveling sales and marketing manager, in a corporate role. She had oversight at 27 assisted living/memory care communities in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. She would be at a community for 10days and then have 4 days off. While working, she lived in the community she was working at. She has lived in assisted living for over 3 years! She really knows the ins and outs of assisted living.
While working in that role she met a woman who is a Senior Care Advisor, who explained how they do not only represent one location, but an entire industry. This is when Brenda knew that perhaps she was sitting on the wrong side of the table. She wanted to help everyone she could.
Brenda then went to work for a very reputable company and mastered her role as a senior care advisor.
Brenda loves being a senior care advisor because of what it represents in her life. Before she worked in the industry, she lost her father to suicide. 3 years later, her mother was diagnosed with Cancer, with a 2-week life expectancy. Her mother was a live in, in-home caregiver for a couple. They both had dementia and the husband had progressed into needing to live in a skilled nursing facility. Her mom would make a homemade meal and take the wife to visit daily. Her mother lived across the country and the hospital called her to give her the information and that she needed to figure out where to have her mother have hospice. She was beside herself in shock and disbelief. Not knowing how to navigate the care system or anything for that matter. When her mother started hospice, she knew only of the skilled nursing facility her mother’s clients were at.
Once there, all the Nurses and staff were just as shocked to see Brenda’s mother there in the state she was. Brenda knew how much of a difference her mother made with her clients and then how the Nurses and staff treated her. Brenda promised her mother on her deathbed, that she would do something to make a difference.
This is how you know that Brenda not only understands how difficult it is to make these life decisions, but she will also provide you with a Caring Heart!
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