Evergreen love continues at Belmont Village Senior Living La Jolla

Belmont Village Senior Living La Jolla unveiled its new permanent photography installation, the ‘Lasting Love Gallery,’ on Thursday, Nov. 30. The gallery showcased photos of nine couples who reside in the community. As the unveiling began, residents gathered to enjoy the photos. The once-empty lounge turned into a lively banquet hall in an instant. San […]

Belmont Village Senior Living Employees Honored with CALA Excellence in Service Award

Belmont Village Senior Living, a renowned developer, owner and operator of senior living communities across the U.S. with 15 communities in California, is honored  that James Arp, Senior Executive Director at Belmont Village La Jolla, and Dora Siguenza, Caregiver at Belmont Village Encino received the California Assisted Living Association (CALA) Excellence in Service Award during […]

‘It’s worthwhile’: Photo shoot of local veterans helps illustrate their military service

Military veterans living at the Belmont Village La Jolla senior community put their service in the viewfinder of photographer Thomas Sanders for photo shoots Aug. 21 that will become a permanent exhibit at Belmont Village. Sanders created portraits of the veterans with personal memorabilia illustrating their experiences and drew out their stories recorded by Belmont Village staff. […]

Belmont Village La Jolla creates upcycled fashion line for September runway show

La Jolla has stores that provide offerings from some of fashion’s most iconic houses. But the residents of the nearby Belmont Village La Jolla senior-living community are creating something unlike anything you’ve seen with the La Jolla Legacy Project fashion house. The residents are putting together custom outfits using donated clothing items to create their […]

Stein Institute Focuses on Building Collaborations with Centers on Aging

Jodi Waterhouse and Belmont’s Director of Business Development, Paula Lemkuil stand next to the elevator sign that includes our Living Lab. As Seen in the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging and Stein Institute for Research on Aging Newsletter Written by: Danielle Glorioso Since Dr. Alison Moore was appointed Interim Director of the Stein [...]

U.S. News & World Report Recognizes Belmont Village Senior Living Communities in their 2023-2024 Best Senior Living Ratings

Belmont Village Senior Living is proud to announce that 17 of its communities have been included in the U.S. News & World Report’s recently released Best Senior Living ratings. “Our organization is thrilled to be recognized as a top player in providing resident-centered care,” said Patricia Will, Founder and CEO of Belmont Village Senior Living. […]

Opinion: After over 50 years in anthropology, I know what it’s like to be the only woman at my job

As Seen in the San Diego Union Tribune Schoeninger is a distinguished professor at UCSD and former co-director at the Center for Advanced Research and Training in Anthropogeny. She resides at Belmont Village La Jolla. She wrote this letter in honor of Women’s History Month. Reflecting on National Women’s History Month that has just passed, a […]

We found love later in life. Here’s how we blended our families.

Belmont Village La Jolla residents Ed and Marilyn met in 1977 at a meeting for Parents without Partners. They recently wrote a letter in the San Diego Union Tribune to share more about their love story. Our love story began in Washington, D.C., in 1977. We met at a meeting at Parents without Partners, an […]

New ‘Living Lab’ collaboration between UCSD and senior-living community will look into aging successfully

In an effort to understand what defines aging successfully, UC San Diego will operate a “Living Lab” at Belmont Village Senior Living La Jolla, a 17-story, 187-unit upscale senior apartment community that opened in August. The Living Lab will start in early 2023 with research associates conducting informational interviews with Belmont Village residents. It will […]

Belmont’s lifelong learning courses promote brain health, healthy aging

Maintaining brain health and encouraging successful aging are behind Belmont Village’s foray into collaborations to provide lifelong learning opportunities to its senior living residents. Belmont Village Senior Living Lakeway recently partnered with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), in collaboration with Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin, to offer onsite in-person and […]