Our Story | Aldersgate Retirement Community

Our Mission:

We honor elders, all elders, and are committed to creating and fostering diverse, caring communities where everyone has a voice and value.

Our Vision:

We will strive to give the elders we serve their best possible day, each day, by creating fulfilling life experiences while partnering with others to form vibrant communities.

Our Values:

Serving with Compassion

We are a community in which the rhythm of each individual’s life is respected, enhanced and informs the delivery of services and programs. We provide a quality experience that focuses on each individual’s needs and expressed desires across all elements of care and well-being.

“…Experience that focuses on each individual's needs and expressed desires.”

Living in Faith

We are an organization in which faith guides our decisions and actions.

“Guided by Faith.”

Embracing Diversity & Inclusion

We are an inclusive organization that values the richness of diversity and allows each individual the opportunity to contribute their gifts in significant ways to the success of the organization and the betterment of our community. We will engage people of different thoughts, lifestyles, skills, talents and resources in creating communities and services.

“… Allows each individual the opportunity to contribute their gifts in significant ways.”

Practicing Stewardship

We are a community in which the highest principles of stewardship - accountability, generosity and sustainability - inform our relationships and actions.

“… Accountability, generosity and sustainability - inform our relationships.”

Respecting Independence

We embrace elders for the contributions they make in the fabric of our culture. We are an organization in which the worth and significance of all elders - and the world of aging services - are given a strong voice of advocacy in all corridors of power, influence and decision-making.

“A strong voice of advocacy in all corridors of power, influence and decision-making.”

Building Meaningful Connections

We will join in partnership with our neighbors to positively impact our community. We build upon the cumulative gifts of collaboration through cultivating and sustaining relationships. We engage all stakeholders in the creation of opportunity to better serve their lives, families, homes and the aging community.

“We engage all stakeholders in the creation of opportunity.”

Acting with Integrity

We govern with integrity, lead with compassion, operate soundly and serve with authenticity. We will demonstrate integrity by doing what is right even when no one is watching.

“We will demonstrate integrity by doing what is right even when no one is watching.”

Striving for Excellence

We achieve excellence by continuously/continually raising our goals, expectation, boundaries and potential. We attract and retain employee talent by encouraging leadership and personal development, cultivating a distinct culture of rich communication and instilling a deep connection to its mission, vision and values.

“We attract and retain employee talent by encouraging leadership and personal development.”

Aldersgate is located in the ethnically and culturally diverse East Charlotte Community. In 2016, the Board of Directors at Aldersgate engaged to develop an organization-wide diversity and inclusion strategic plan to be implemented over the subsequent five years.

Our organization is committed to embracing diversity and treating everyone with dignity and respect, and to support our inclusive culture. The ultimate goal is to make Aldersgate more diverse for residents, staff, and board members by fully embracing all dimensions of diversity including race, age, religion, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, culture, socioeconomic status, and other characteristics that make our community unique.

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