My journey to Senior Life Home Care

 MY NAME IS KELLY REEVES and I want to help you. Let me tell you a little bit about myself and why I am committed to helping you and your loved ones. After graduating from college in 1987, I spent the next few years working and enjoying life. I was carefree and life was a grand adventure. I was lucky. However, in the late 1990s, the path of my life was drastically changed when my mother was diagnosed with a rare, terminal brain disease. She was only 52 years old when she was diagnosed with Pick’s disease. Over the next 7 years, I watched my mother go from being the strongest person I knew to requiring complete care, being unable to speak or even feed herself. My mother had always been my hero and when she became sick I had never even considered I could lose her to anything and certainly not to dementia. Within a matter of months, she was no longer able to live without constant supervision and my family struggled to determine how best to care for her. I became her legal guardian and for the final years of her life, I was charged with ensuring she received the care she required and deserved. It was and still is the greatest loss and learning experience of my life. The long goodbye of dementia can be cruel and devastating but her grace, dignity, and faith gave me the strength to make it and are still my guiding lights today. In 2001, my mother’s long goodbye ended and her death, as well as her illness, changed me in profound ways and one of those was the desire to change my career path. A good friend suggested that my personal and business experience would make healthcare and specifically home care for dementia patients a good fit. Later that year I purchased a home care franchise in Florida. I owned and operated this business for nine years. I later relocated to NC and returned to school to become a Register Nurse.  In  North Carolina, I was happy to have the opportunity to continue with helping seniors  as operations manager for a successful home care agency in Durham NC and since 2017 as the Agency Director of Senior Life Home Care.

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – RALPH WALDO EMERSON