Silvergate Retirement Residences’ collection of right-sized senior living communities brings together all the conveniences and size benefits of large-scale operations while retaining the most attractive aspects of smaller, more intimate retirement properties. This “goldilocks” approach also applies to the number of residents living in each community. For new residents in particular, having the optimum number of residents helps create the abundance of energy and enthusiasm needed to assure a vibrant, independent senior lifestyle while not being overwhelming.
Ideal Community Size
When exploring senior living options, one key feature families can easily overlook is the impact of the physical size of a retirement community. Step into one that is overly large, and seniors can feel lost. Walk into a smaller senior community, on the other hand, and the extra services and amenities can be noticeably absent. Silvergate properties are designed to be large enough to offer the high-end amenities seniors expect in a luxury retirement community, including larger apartment homes, casual and fine dining venues, abundant event and activity spaces and even separate memory care buildings for higher levels of care—all while still being intimate enough to feel comfortable and easy to navigate.
Ideal Resident Population Size
Part of the secret to Silvergate’s success is having the ideal resident population size. Having a high enough volume of residents to produce the collective energy and enthusiasm necessary to make group gatherings, social events and fun activities possible is critical to the social success of a senior living community. However, there is a careful balance to strike. Silvergate’s ideal resident population size still allow seniors the ability to easily get to know new people, make meaningful new friendships, know staff members personally and to live in a community environment where everyone knows your name.
Ensuring A Luxury Lifestyle
The size of Silvergates’ communities helps assure enough revenue is generated to provide for an upscale lifestyle without having to collect the significant, up-front buy-in fee often required by many large-scale retirement communities. By being large enough to have the resources needed to support a wide variety of premium services, every Silvergate community offers industry-leading staffing ratios, the highest quality food and dining experiences, first- rate entertainment, and events as well as continual property reinvestment by ownership. Decades in business has allowed Silvergate to successfully pinpoint the ideal mix of campus size, resident volume and luxury services needed to deliver an award-winning senior living experience—making it a place where every day matters for residents.