by sminsteradm | Feb 26, 2021 | Press
It happens all the time. You can’t recall the lyrics to a familiar song until you hear the music. Then the words come flowing back, as if you’d never forgotten. This phenomenon is at the heart of a new program at Southminster retirement community that uses personally...
by sminsteradm | Feb 3, 2021 | Embrace at SM, Embrace Care, News & Events, Press
Southminster — a life plan community in Charlotte, North Carolina — successfully completed a substantial amount of construction prior to and during the pandemic, and continues to advance the design work on a few more projects. READ FULL...
by sminsteradm | Jan 15, 2021 | Press
These days, many of us are living longer. And longer lives means more seniors to serve in our communities, and a broader range of active ages and interests and abilities to engage. To this end, the most innovative communities are not just adding facilities for older...
by sminsteradm | Apr 26, 2019 | Press
Ole Kassow was riding a bicycle in his hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark, when he passed an elderly man using a walker. Kassow started thinking about how sad it would be to lose the ability to ride a bicycle, to never feel the wind in your hair again. A few days later,...
by sminsteradm | Jan 29, 2018 | Press
FOUR YEARS AGO, Stephen Phillips and his wife, Barbara, finally heeded their adult daughters’ pleas—just short of commands—to move near one of them. The Phillipses were native Northeasterners who lived in Connecticut. One daughter lives in Denver, the other in...
by sminsteradm | Nov 10, 2015 | Press
Isolation and inactivity can be a deadly combination for older adults. And so, a partnership between Mecklenburg’s park and recreation department and the nonprofit Southminster retirement community is taking a fresh crack at the issue by opening a new...
