Southminster News
McKnights Senior Living: Mentoring program helps provider engage residents, invest in workplace culture
A leadership academy assignment has evolved into an organic collaboration between residents and employees at one continuing care retirement / life plan community, enabling the provider to meet its mission and establish a culture that engages residents while addressing...
Celebrating Library Month Through Southminster Resident’s International Non-Profit
Once upon a time when she was in her 50s, Southminster Resident Susan Aldrich spent three hours of her life riding a horse bareback through a jungle to get back to civilization after ferrying children’s books to start a library. She, her niece and two Peace Corps...
McKnights Senior Living: CCRC hopes new arts ‘prescription’ pilot program will lead to resident wellness model for industry
Residents of a North Carolina continuing care retirement community will be receiving “prescriptions” for artistic and creative engagement to test whether they enhance physical and cognitive well-being. In what is being touted as a “first-of-its-kind” initiative,...
Southminster Launches Nation’s First “Creative Aging on Prescription” Study with Major Research University and National Arts & Aging Experts
Southminster just announced that it has embraced a unique opportunity to become a national leader in arts-integrated wellness within continuous care retirement communities (CCRCs). It is partnering with Lifetime Arts and Wake Forest University’s NeuroArts Lab to pilot...
Southminster Kicks Off Inaugural 8 Over 80 Celebration
Some of Charlotte’s longest living and most accomplished citizens never retired from finding purpose in life. A group of eight were honored at the inaugural “8 Over 80” Lifetime of Purpose Awards, celebrated at Quail Hollow Club and presented by Southminster. The...
This Charlotte community defies age norms
At this Charlotte retirement community, residents in their 70s and 80s are outperforming people decades younger — climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, leading study sessions and competing in Senior Olympics. Here's how: Traditional senior living focuses on decline — but...
Including social media in marketing efforts results in improved business metrics, CCRC finds
A continuing care retirement / life plan community in Charlotte, NC, has found that expanding its marketing efforts to include social media platforms has resulted in measurably improved business metrics. Southminster said that since became active on Facebook,...
Charlotte life plan community innovates outreach with digital communications platforms
For decades, retirement communities appealed to prospective residents through traditional methods of marketing. A fixture of their communications strategies was pricey in-person informational luncheons that involved catering, printed and mailed invites, plus years of...
Why record numbers of 68-to-72-year-olds are pre-choosing retirement communities
CHARLOTTE, N.C., October 1, 2024 — Baby Boomers in the middle years of their generation are often described as being optimistic and team-oriented, known for valuing personal gratification and growth, health and wellness, meaningful work, purpose and involvement. For...
Southminster residents and staff compete in their own Olympics this week
CHARLOTTE, N.C., August 8, 2024 — This week, South Charlotte’s premier life plan community is staging its own Olympic Games, giving seniors fueled by the intensely competitive spirit they’ve seen in Paris a chance to show their stuff. The opening ceremony for the...
WCNC Charlotte – Move over Influencers… at Southminster, it’s all about “Granfluencers”
Southminster, is helping residents take their social posts to the next level: In the world of social media, by now you've likely heard of "influencers." This morning on Charlotte Today...we were talking "Granfluencers". Joining us to break it all down, and talk more...
Southminster celebrates GEP students with a concert by Darius Rucker’s lead guitarist Quinton Gibson and April Cushman
Quinton Gibson, lead guitarist for platinum-selling country artist Darius Rucker and April Cushman, the New England Music Awards’ Country Act of the Year in 2022, are winging their way to Charlotte to celebrate the accomplishments of Southminster’s Greater Enrichment...