Imagine a restaurant where the same customers return every day and bring selective and sophisticated palates. It is a scenario that could strike fear in the most accomplished chefs and describes a lifestyle that residents in Triangle and Triad retirement communities have come to expect. The elevated culinary scene [...]
Lynn Ross, Director of Marketing at Arbor Acres, reminds us that Thanksgiving creates the perfect opportunity, with family gathered together, to make plans for the future. [...]
How Arbor Acres Retirement Community quietly impacts the local community. Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community in Winston-Salem, N.C., and its residents understand the power of giving and service—a spirit of philanthropy infuses the culture. Since its inception 40 years ago, this retirement community has been generous in its contributions of time and support to local organizations and causes that [...]
Arbor Acres Retirement Community in Winston-Salem has launched an In-Home Care Program for their residents. Arbor Acres at Home gives the retirement community’s residents the option of receiving more intensive home care services in their independent living residences, so they can stay in their homes or apartments as long as possible before moving to a higher level of care. [...]
“It’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen.” That’s how Les Cranfill, Director of Building and Grounds Arts at Arbor Acres, describes the renovation of the Fitzgerald, the building that houses the continuing care retirement community’s skilled nursing and memory care. The 85-acre campus, home to nearly 500 residents, is re-opening the Fitzgerald, home to more than 100 residents who need the [...]
Several years ago, a gerontologist from Duke University, in discussing the sociological issues facing older people, compared the importance of horizontal and vertical relationships in their lives. Horizontal relationships, she said, refer to a person’s peers while vertical relationships are generational – mothers, fathers, children, and grandchildren. What struck me was her emphasis on the importance of horizontal relationships, even [...]
Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community has recently added several new employees to its management team. Lisa McClellan has joined the staff in the newly created position of Director of Talent and Work Life Enhancement Arts. Lisa oversees talent management and personnel policies, compensation strategies and benefit programs, and training and development for over 300 full-time and part-time employees. [...]
If you happen to be at Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community at 10:30 in the morning on any given weekday, and you’re in their main building, you might suddenly find yourself in the middle of a crowd of casually-dressed residents, their faces red and shiny, their hair somewhat disheveled, pouring out of Fellowship Hall. It’s the end of [...]
Re-inventing Corpening Apartments is the next phase of Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community’s forward-looking strategic plan. After the recent completion of a new neighborhood of 17 free standing homes, with six more to be built in 2013, and the opening of Asbury Place, a beautiful new building for residents who need assisted living, Arbor Acres is now getting ready [...]
Arbor Acres’ new assisted living center looks like a colonial village, an illusion well-crafted to entice the eye. Like all of Arbor Acres, the building evokes beauty and creative expression, the essential contributions of art to life.Arbor Acres’ mission, like fine art, has grown richer over time. Opening in 1980, Arbor Acres strives to enhance each resident’s experience of aliveness. The [...]
