A Non-Profit Dedicated to Eldercare in Sewanee, TN

To serve older adults in a residential living community with services that: encourage active, healthy living; respect each individual's dignity, rights and independence; value ongoing educational, artistic and community service offerings; and offer opportunities for intergenerational relationships.

Our Mission

Arcadia at Sewanee is a not-profit corporation initiated by the University of the South several years ago with the goal of establishing a retirement community with a continuum of care (CCRC) on, or near, the University Domain. To move this effort along, Arcadia’s Board of Directors asked the community to share its insights. The survey was developed by ProMatura, a consulting firm that is recognized nationally as one of the strongest possible advisors for such projects. The number of responses enabled ProMatura to make its recommendations with a high degree of confidence.

Our Survey

Arcadia and Sewanee’s Folks at Home launched LiveWell on the Mountain, a program provided by Blakeford Senior Life in Nashville. LiveWell offers a complete and professional program of home care services to support “aging in place” with a long-term care component. The goal of this program is to complement the development of Arcadia’s retirement community with a continuum of care (CCRC).

LiveWell

Arcadia is currently working to fund the final planning phase of our campus. The goal is to fund the second planning study, a site choice and plan, the initial land engineering, and first steps toward financing the project.

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“It’s a long way away, even from Chattanooga, in the middle of the woods, on top of a bastion of mountains crenellated with blue coves. It is so beautiful that people who have once been there always, one way or another, come back. For such as can detect apple green in an evening sky, it is Arcadia – not the one that never used to be, but the one that many people always live in; only this one can be shared.”

— William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee

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Updates From Arcadia at Sewanee’s Board of Directors

Arcadia at Sewanee is making steady progress toward bringing a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) to Sewanee. Recent developments include Janet Cooper joining as program director; LiveWell on the Mountain increasing its membership to 15; and engaging the services of ARCH Consultants to evaluate the feasibility of developing a CCRC in Sewanee.

Janet Cooper Named Arcadia Program Director

Arcadia at Sewanee’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Janet Cooper, a Sewanee resident and University of the South graduate (C’80), has been hired to assume the role of program director for the organization. Janet will share her 40 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, most recently as director of the Plateau’s South Cumberland Community Fund.

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