Southminster News
The Solace and Support of Southminster: Finding Community Before Losing a Spouse
The day Jack Cook graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, he skipped the university’s ceremony, and he and Janice Callahan had a special ceremony of their own. The two Alamance County, N.C. natives got married. Little did Jack know that more than 55 years later, after Janice...
Southminster partners with Memory & Movement Charlotte to ease care access
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Southminster’s mission has long included a commitment to collaborate with like-minded organizations to accelerate impact on all generations across Charlotte Mecklenburg’s broader community. The community’s latest initiative has given birth to a new...
Darius Rucker’s lead guitarist plays holiday concert for GEP Students at Southminster
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - As lead guitarist for platinum-selling country artist Darius Rucker, Quinton Gibson has entertained audiences around the globe for more than a decade. This holiday season, he and country music standout April Cushman will be in Charlotte playing a...
Southminster’s $140 million expansion makes it an even more integral part of Southpark
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Before SouthPark Mall opened on the outskirts of Charlotte in 1970, the wisdom of building a big shopping mall in the middle of pastureland gave many people pause. But just a dozen years later, when the visionaries at Christ Episcopal and Myers Park...
Southminster and The Shepherd’s Center join forces to mitigate social isolation among seniors
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Southminster, South Charlotte’s leading life-plan community, and The Shepherd’s Center both see the challenges of aging on a daily basis. Their complementary skill sets recently led the two organizations to strengthen their collaboration in order to...
Southminster Featured in Charlotte Magazine for April
The core of the baby boomer generation is reaching retirement age, and that’s driving an emerging trend in Charlotte and elsewhere: Communities with more space, more options, more technology, more fun. Southminster is a growing...
Southminster sponsors new Brain Health Workshops at The Ivey
CHARLOTTE, N.C.— Southminster, South Charlotte’s premier Life Plan retirement community, and The Ivey, a non-profit organization devoted to memory wellness education and respite programs, have announced a new collaboration -- Fridays-At-The Ivey Brain Health...
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 ARTICLE
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,...
CHARLOTTE MAGAZINE – As ‘Silver Tsunami’ Hits, Agencies Serving Older Adults Play Catch-Up
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...