News from Arcadia at Sewanee

Arcadia at Sewanee’s Board of Trustees is considering both an innovative approach to bringing a “Life Plan at Home” concept to the Mountain and engaging a national leader in market research for retirement communities. 

Discussions are ongoing with a Nashville-based nonprofit organization, Blakeford Senior Life, to establish a life plan at home program for the Sewanee area. Blakeford’s program, LiveWell by Blakeford, provides a personalized approach to healthy and independent people who want to live at home as they age. This program incorporates personalized wellness and preventative services with, should health unexpectedly change, a full plan of services for the member’s lifetime. The working group in dialogue with Blakeford includes representation of Sewanee’s Folks at Home based on the premise that both programs could successfully co-exist and grow.

 Arcadia’s second initiative is to undertake a second, more in depth, market study of the demand for an independent living facility in Sewanee. This evaluation, the cost of which will be borne by Arcadia, is deemed necessary for all vested parties, including Blakeford, to quantify the demand for a facility, the type of facility, and programs and services desired. 

Arcadia board members and David Shipps, the University’s Vice President of Development and Community Affairs, have had very productive discussions related to the above approaches and longer-term University and Arcadia objectives.