As a continuing-care community, Carolina Meadows is committed to the idea that a complete spectrum of health, wellness, and support services should be available to you whenever you need it. Achieving a state of wellness comprises a number of components — physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Carolina Meadows offers a wide variety of opportunities to achieve each component of wellness.

   Carolina Meadows offers a broad range of physical fitness opportunities, such as stretch and tone, water walking, arthritis aquatics, balance, flexercise, weight training, yoga, and Tai Chi. We also offer line dancing and square dancing classes and a myriad of nutrition and wellness seminars. There are many opportunities to socialize, including movie nights, game days, social hours, group outings, and card tournaments. Worship services and other spiritual events are held on-site.

   For most day-to-day health care needs, you need not leave campus -- just drop by the Carolina Meadows Community Health Clinic. Several full-time nurse practitioners and registered nurses, who handle hundreds of resident visits each month, staff the clinic. They dispense routine care, such as blood pressure check-ups and brief examinations, all of which are included in your monthly fees. The Community Health Clinic also offers a wide range of physician services, including specialties such as dermatology and podiatry. If you choose, you can receive much of your primary medical care right on campus.

   Emergency care is always close by at Carolina Meadows. Each home has a call system that is monitored 24 hours per day. Professional nurses from the Community Health Clinic and the Health Center, as well as trained security personnel, are among the first responders when an emergency call comes in. We also provide home visits to monitor residents with chronic needs or those unable to visit the Community Health Clinic.

   Residents have access to some of the most advanced medical care in the world at the renowned teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University in nearby Durham.