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You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup
Featuring: Sudi Rodway, Recreational Therapist As the COVID-19 virus ran its course through the country, it put incredible pressure on patients and residents in the nation’s hospitals and long-term care facilities. Older adults were particularly...
Managing a Sea Change in Caregiving
Featuring: Michelle Stull, CNA & Head of Housekeeping, Providence Place Senior Living Chambersburg Students of Greek mythology may remember Proteus, the old man of the sea—god of elusive sea change. As the story goes, Proteus knew everything,...
Recognizing All Team Members as Caregivers in October
As we coast into Fall, we are entering the holiday season. Sometimes, the glitz and glam of it all can overpower the meaning behind some of the holidays. Here at Ceca Foundation, we just celebrated World Gratitude Day (September 21) and, of course,...
Help Wanted
Featuring: Caregiver Lashonda B. CNA in Staffing & Scheduling With coronavirus restrictions easing and people out and about again, we’ve started seeing them everywhere – “Help Wanted” signs. They’re posted in restaurants and cafés, retail...
Caregiving Through Duct Tape
Featuring: George Bridges, Maintenance Technician, Goodwin House Alexandria In the movie The Martian, an intense sandstorm devastates a manned mission to Mars, and the crew must abandon the planet, leaving behind astronaut Mark Watney. He is...
Sometimes, Dancing with Residents in Lockdown is an Extraordinary Act of Care
Featuring: Aubrey Marrow, Resident Life Associate, Providence Place Senior Living Drums A year ago, as COVID-19 continued to spread rapidly, millions of people around the world celebrated Easter by staying home and watching Andrea Bocelli’s solo...
Finding Warmth in the Midst of Houston’s Storm
Featuring: Penny Isaac, Caregiver with Arosa’s Texas Branch In January 2021, temperatures in Siberia rose 100 degrees creating a mass of warm air that pushed the polar vortex off its axis at the north pole. By February, the concentration of cold...
Spreading Cheer Through Celebration of Heritage
Featuring: Modupe Akinola, Vocational Nurse, Stoddard Baptist Global Care Every February since 1976, Americans have officially celebrated Black History Month to honor the struggles, as well as the important artistic, cultural, and political...
It’s More Than Just a Job
Featuring: Barba Kargbo, Housekeeping Aide, Potomac Falls Health and Rehabilitation Center In 1991, a brutal civil war began sweeping through Sierra Leone. It would last eleven years—forcing tens of thousands from their homes, and creating a new...
Born a Caregiver
Featuring: Juanell Glotzbach, Activities Director, Knollwood Life Plan Community We’ve all done it. We can’t remember words, or why we came into the room, or where we parked the car, and before we know it, we’re at the keyboard searching for...
Honoring our Heroes on D-Day… and Every Day
Featuring: The history of Mary Lawlor, taken from an interview with Ceca Foundation co-founder, Matthew Lawlor, reflecting on his mother’s life and Ceca’s beginnings. 77 years ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for Operation...
A Moving Moment With a Veteran
Featuring: Bernadette Leggett, Unit Clerk, Stoddard Baptist Global Care Supporting a Veteran resident through a PTSD episode—“Just squeeze my hand, I promise we’ll get through this together.” You never really know what’s going to trigger a...