Glenmeadow Learning Offers a Progressive Lunch
Program is the last in the spring education series
LONGMEADOW—Glenmeadow will offer a progressive lunch and information for seniors and their families on the experience of accessing services through a life plan community on Tuesday June 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
As part of the last program in the spring Glenmeadow Learning education series, “A Progressive Lunch: Three Courses, and a Discussion on the Glenmeadow Experience,” participants can enjoy an appetizer, main course and dessert at no cost in the Terraceside Dining Room. While they eat, participants can converse with Glenmeadow’s experts and gather information related to aging that is of particular interest to them.
Discussion themes to choose from will include Lifestyles and Learnings, regarding services that relate to quality of life and wellness; The Glenmeadow Assist, in which topics on support services will be covered, from companionship to transportation; and The Healthy Household, with topics geared to decluttering, handyman help and housekeeping.
Experts will include staff members with knowledge in various areas of interest and individuals who either live at Glenmeadow or access various Glenmeadow at Home services. The program will be offered at Glenmeadow at 24 Tabor Crossing, Longmeadow.
The program is free, but seating is limited, and registration is required; call (413) 567-7800 or email learning@glenmeadow.org. Visit glenmeadow.org/events for more information.
Glenmeadow Learning is one of many free programs Glenmeadow offers to members of the wider community. And these programs represent only one facet of the life plan community’s mission to serve seniors across the region and to operate as a socially accountable organization.
Established in 1884, Glenmeadow is a nonprofit, accredited continuing care retirement community; it provides independent and assisted living at its campus at 24 Tabor Crossing in Longmeadow and expanded Glenmeadow at Home services throughout greater Springfield.
To learn more about Glenmeadow and its history and offerings, visit www.glenmeadow.org.
About Glenmeadow
In the 1800s, elderly individuals without family or means were sent to live at what was called “the poor farm.” In 1884, a group of civic leaders raised funds among themselves and other area families and purchased a house on Main Street in Springfield’s south end. Quickly outgrowing that house, land was purchased on the corner of Chestnut and Carew streets, where a new home was constructed and opened in 1900. In 1960, the name was changed to Chestnut Knoll, and in 1992, it began to admit men.
In 1993, the organization purchased a 23-acre parcel in Longmeadow to build a new community that would provide both independent living and assisted living in one building with various common areas. This was a new concept known as a continuing care retirement community. Existing residents from the old Chestnut Knoll property were moved to the new campus in 1997. Shortly after the move, the board voted to change its legal name to Glenmeadow to coincide with the name being used by the developer of the property.
