Aegis Innovation

A sense of community means a comfortable home, shared activities and friends and neighbors who enjoy spending time together. Aegis recognizes that there are specific senior populations who are underserved and we are developing communities to meet their needs.

Aegis Gardens

The first of these communities is Aegis Gardens in Fremont, California. Here, Chinese seniors are served by Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking staff and meals reflect what would be prepared in their own homes. Activities and outings are tailored around their interests and the building architecture reflects traditional Chinese forms.

Fountaingrove Lodge

Fountaingrove Lodge in Santa Rosa, California designed to provide a beautiful, secure and dynamic community for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender seniors. This community is one of the first of its kind in the country and leads the way in serving the LGBT community. Fountaingrove Lodge is located near San Francisco, the Russian River LGBT resort and the famous Sonoma wine region offering exclusive restaurants, shopping and cultural events.

Black Box Program

Years ago a young boy went to visit his grandmother at one of those old-fashioned "nursing homes." It was a gloomy sort of place. Day after day, the elderly men and women stared sadly and silently out their windows. The young boy saw this, and his heart went out to them.

When he became a young man, he went to work for an assisted living community. Again, he saw sadness in the eyes of the residents. He dreamed of making their lives brighter and more hopeful -- but the company turned a cold eye on his ideas. "Quit dreaming," they told him. "Just do your job. The old ways are good enough."

And the young man did do his job -- but he never stopped dreaming. Long into the night his imagination soared. Year after year he wrote down beautiful, wonderful, impossible ideas for bringing joy, comfort and meaning to the lives of the elderly. He kept his ideas in a battered black box and never lost hope. "Someday," he vowed, "I will start a new kind of company, and the ideas in this box will be our guiding stars."

Sure enough, today there are 32 Aegis Living communities. Each has become a beacon of hope and innovation for thousands of seniors and their families. Each employs big-hearted people who care -- and care deeply -- about the quality of life of their residents. And each has its very own black box -- a place of honor where every employee can submit his or her most beautiful, wonderful, impossible ideas for making life better.