Centers for Successful Aging | My Masterpiece Living

Masterpiece Living Designates Five New Centers for Successful Aging

Posted on 01/02/2020

Masterpiece Living designated five new Centers for Successful Aging in 2019. Centers for Successful Aging (CSA) recipients have incorporated all of the criteria set by a team of longevity experts, to include: leadership trained in successful aging, data-driven decision making, active coaching and team member successful aging initiatives. A landmark, decade-long study by the MacArthur Foundation revealed that 70% of physical […]

Masterpiece Living Designates Four New Centers for Successful Aging

Posted on 12/18/2018

Maximizing Potential and Putting Research into Action Centers for Successful Aging (CSAs) fulfill the need for high quality successful aging service providers, and are regional destinations that implement innovative practices, both within their organization and for the greater community. These are destinations that empower residents and team members to maximize their potential by applying the latest research […]

Sun Health’s Successful Aging Series

Posted on 01/26/2018

Sun Health’s Grandview Terrace, La Loma Village and The Colonnade are three Masterpiece Living partner organizations located in Arizona. Sun Health recently wrote a series of articles defining successful aging and demonstrating ways to incorporate lifestyle approaches within a community and as an individual. In part one, Spirituality at retirement communities, they explore the importance of a […]

Friendship Village of Bloomington a Promising Practices Winner!

Posted on 01/25/2018

Friendship Village of Bloomington (a Lifespace Community and Masterpiece Living partner) was recently featured in the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging’s annual Innovation at Work 2017 report as a Promising Practices Winner for the way that they are helping to reshape the aging services profession. In the article, “Promoting Wellness Through Resident Empowerment,” they share […]

Masterpiece Living Designates Friendship Village of Bloomington a Center for Successful Aging

Posted on 12/27/2017

By 2050, it is projected that 88.5 million Americans (one in five) will be aged 65 and older – more than double the projected 40.2 million in 2010. There is no question that we as a society must adapt to the growing older adult population. Coupled with the knowledge from a landmark ten-year study by […]

HIIT at The Terraces of Phoenix

Posted on 09/25/2017

In this video, watch how Jay, the fitness instructor at The Terraces of Phoenix (a Masterpiece Living Partner and Center for Successful Aging), instructs a HIIT class (High-Intensity Interval Training) for residents. They were craving something more challenging, and he delivered! We hope more communities adopt classes such as this one so that attendees can remain active […]

Four Pointes – Center for Successful Aging Tries Aerial Yoga as Part of “Living It!”

Posted on 02/28/2017

Our friends at the Four Pointes – Center for Successful Aging stepped out of their comfort zones and tried aerial yoga for the first time. The initiative was part of Masterpiece Living’s Living It! campaign, which challenges participants to try new opportunities in the social, intellectual, physical and spiritual components of successful aging. Four Pointes Wellness […]

Masterpiece Living Designates Seven New Centers for Successful Aging

Posted on 01/05/2017

By 2050, an estimated one in five Americans will be over the age of 65, and as a society, we need to adapt to the growing older adult population. Furthermore, a landmark ten-year study by the MacArthur Foundation revealed that 70% of physical aging and approximately 50% of mental aging is determined by the lifestyle choices that […]

Building a Culture of Successful Aging

Posted on 09/20/2016

By: Penny Vittoria (Successful Aging Coach, Acacia Creek) When you walk through Acacia Creek Retirement Community, it feels different from other communities. One visitor remarked, “I think my mom would live longer if she moved here.” What she felt is what most people feel at Acacia Creek, an aliveness that comes from people who are […]

It’s Never Too Late to Do Something Amazing

Posted on 09/06/2016

Three Clermont Park residents were recently featured on Fox31 in Denver illustrating how it’s never too late to learn something new and do something amazing. Clermont Park is a Masterpiece Living partner and a Center for Successful Aging. In this segment, Shirley Swedeen, Evelyn Lyons, and Jean Johnston share more about their scuba diving and […]

News