CHARLOTTE OBSERVER – Music stirs memories for people with dementia
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...
Living Magazine – Southminster Expands to Meet Consumer Expectations
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...
RECREATION MANAGEMENT – A Playground for (All) the Ages
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...
AARP – Take a Kid at Heart on a Bicycle Ride
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,...