With six beautiful locations in Florida, award-winning Aston Gardens senior living communities are dedicated to providing residents with exceptional amenities and services, combined with exciting activities.

How many articles have you read about the disintegration of the family unit being a major cause of everything that is wrong with America today? Seattle’s Bayview retirement community has perhaps created an early-stage solution: a unique environment that brings pre-schoolers in for daycare and a healthy dose of senior love and wisdom.

Secure courtyards safe for exploring, themed rooms and corridors to assist with way finding, and a specialized activity program are some of the life-enhancing components found at the ActivCare® at Bressi Ranch residential memory loss care community.

An exciting new retirement community has opened in Prescott, Arizona. Alta Vista is situated on a 6-acre hillside parcel that offers stunning views of the mountain ranges and peaks that define the Prescott area.

The Hawthorn Village Senior Apartment Homes and Boulevard Homes have opened to meet the growing demand for high-quality affordable housing in Columbus, OH.

Partnerships in Dementia is a newly created program that trains personal and professional caregivers to help people with dementia improve their quality of life while reducing the burden for the caregivers themselves.

Trilogy Orlando, a resort community developed for the baby boomer generation, has announced the completion of its outdoor Sports Pavilion, the first amenity at its 57,000+ square foot planned Members’ Club. When completed, it is expected to be one of the largest on a square-foot-per-resident basis found at any active adult community in Florida.

One of the nation’s best-known brands of active adult communities, Del Webb, is hosting four grand opening events in Texas and Florida, as it responds to the growing need for active adult housing in key retirement areas.

A new senior housing community in Bemidji, Minn., developed by Ecumenhas received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

Ingleside at Rock Creek, an upscale continuing care retirement community in the Northwest neighborhood of Washington, DC, will soon begin construction on 15 new luxury independent living apartments. The expansion project is expected to be completed and open to residents by fall 2011.

The new McCracken Apartments will be among the largest independent living residences in the Washington, DC area. They will range in size from 1,600 to over 1,800 square feet -- meaning residents will not have to sacrifice space to realize all the advantages of retirement living.