Wellness & Fitness
Embracing Vitality Every Day
Reimagining Wellness
At Roland Park Place, wellness is more than a collection of activities. It’s a way of life. We’ve designed our senior Wellness & Fitness offerings to complement your priorities and your lifestyle—so whether you’re continuing your path to wellness or starting a new journey, our active aging programs and classes are designed to meet you where you are and help you thrive.
Our holistic approach embraces every facet of well-being, from physical health to emotional support.
Keep on Growing
Active Living &
Wellness Program
Wherever we are in life, we hope to continue to grow, flourish, and live within a community of well-being. At Roland Park Place, we make active and healthy lifestyles easily accessible and enjoyably rewarding.
Our senior wellness program is built on a foundation of evidence-based pathways such as Blue Zones Power 9, Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine, Principles of Active Aging, and other resources, and we continue to grow and evolve our offerings to stay in step with emerging wellness findings. We welcome you to choose from diverse and engaging programs that spark your individual interests, and our team is here to support your unique health and wellness priorities and needs.
We organize our holistic wellness into 12 categories:
- Tend
- MINDWELL
- Move
- Care
- Explore
- Create
- Mindful
- Savor
- Connect
- Serve
- Spark
- Play
Tend
To Your Brain Health
All of the pillars of a healthy lifestyle contribute to brain health. Our Wellness Program incorporates these brain health supports into our program and lifestyle designs:
- Smart foods
- Be good to your gut
- Get together
- Sleep smart
- Move smart
- Think smart
MINDWELL
On-Site Mental Wellness
The licensed social work team at Roland Park Place facilitates support groups, individual therapy, and transition support—so care and support is woven into everyday life in our neighborhood, there when you need it.
- Grief support group
- Staying connected support group
- Caregivers support group
- Parkinson’s support group
- Levels of care transition support
Move
Naturally Every Day
At Roland Park Place, moving naturally is a part of everyday life. Choose from one of our engaging fitness classes, stroll and socialize with the walking group, take a dip in the pool, or sign up for an off-site adventure.
- Fitness screening and exercise prescriptions
- Personal training
- Daily weekday water fitness classes in the pool
- Daily fitness class schedule
- Seasonal and monthly specialty programs
- On-site walking paths and dog park
- Walkable neighborhood includes restaurants and shopping
Care
Continuum On-Site
Living well at Roland Park Place includes routine preventative, rehabilitation, and chronic condition care.
- Primary care medical practice
- Occupational, speech, and physical therapy
- Transportation services for off-site medical appointments
- Medication management
- On-site nursing staff available
- Medicine delivery service
- À la carte in-home assistance services (PAL program)
- Medical alert pendants and in-home emergency pull cords
Massage Therapy and Acupuncture services are also available within walking distance.
Explore
The City and Beyond
Our robust list of trips has earned an impressive reputation. Roland Park Place encourages you to explore the theater, art galleries, parks and special events galore, from local Baltimore-area jaunts to Eastern Seaboard excursions. Complete with convenient transportation on the Roland Park Place bus and friendly neighbor traveling companions. We make it a pleasure to get out and about!
- Live music on- and off-site
- Theater and performances
- Events and festivals
- Overnight excursions
- Outdoor adventure
- Sailing expeditions
Create
The Life You Love
Roland Park Place features a lovely art studio with floor-to-ceiling windows that flood the space with inspiring natural light. Use the studio for your independent work or join one of our many art classes and groups.
- Watercolor
- Oil
- Pastel
- 3D
- Weekly craft club
- Knitting club
- Maryland Institute College of Art partnership
Mindful
Calming Intention
Mindful living starts with a well-trained mind and a positive mindset. We offer recurring and special programs to cultivate mindful living and calming intention in your everyday lifestyle.
- Weekly mindfulness meditation group
- Guided meditation workshops
- Science of happiness program
- Seasonal experiences
- Healthy habit-building workshop
Savor
Each Day with Nutrition
Eating well is a pillar of health and wellness. At Roland Park Place, we make it easy to maintain healthy eating patterns by including a rainbow of plants in every week, as well as incorporating nutritional resources and education opportunities.
- Customized meal plans with vegetarian options
- Nutrition resources and education
- On-site health and wellness coach
- Healthy happy hours
- Seasonal neighborhood farmers market
- Walking distance to MOM’s Organic Market
- Trips to nearby restaurants to enjoy local fare
- Weekly grocery shopping transportation
- Instacart grocery delivery
Connect
With Your Community
People in the Blue Zones community of Okinawa, Japan, highly value connection to a Moai – belonging to a secure social network. When you call Roland Park Place home, you are never alone. From the friendliest neighbors and associates to dining in good company, your days are spent with friends.
- Intentional connection with neighbors on your floor
- Weekly live music performances
- Monthly happy hour
- Support groups
- Resident gatherings, clubs, and activities
- Intergenerational, university, and school partnerships
- Daily check-ins as needed
Serve
Each Day with Purpose
Serving on resident committees is a time-honored tradition of community service. Members connect with each other and associate liaisons to collaborate on community-building initiatives.
- Join resident council
- Serve as a floor representative
- Serve on a resident committee
- Connect with volunteer opportunities
- Consider committee opportunities: grounds, sustainability, scholarships, trees, fine art, art studio, programs and events, nominating, library, fitness and wellness, employee holiday fund, dining, and more
Spark
Spirit & Purpose
The Roland Park Place environment is intentionally cultivated to support active aging— to uplift your spirits and spark new reasons to wake up in the morning. In the Costa Rican Blue Zone, it’s known as plan de vida. You may be captivated by a compelling artwork on our walls, or be transported by a transcendent melody from our Peabody resident artist—each day, you can find something to spark your own plan de vida.
- Mindfulness meditation group
- On-site chaplain and religious services
- Weekly live music onsite
- Resident-curated fine art collection
- Monthly art exhibits
- Book club and resident choir
- Speakers
- Peabody resident artist and MICA partnerships
Play
Together & Stay Together
Get together, move naturally and laugh together. Play is a serious antidote to depression and anxiety, and a wonderful way to socialize with your neighbors. While you have fun, you’ll also move naturally, as well as exercise your intellect and memory. No matter what game you choose, everyone wins.
- Canasta
- Bridge
- Scrabble
- Mahjong
- Brain fitness
- Wii Bowling, Golf and Tennis
- Cornhole and ping pong
- Tournaments
Wellness in Motion
Fitness & Aquatics
The range of fitness options at Roland Park Place are designed to offer ample opportunities to enhance your quality of life through regular exercise. Health benefits include disease prevention, decreased risk of falls and strokes, improved sleep, decreased blood pressure, increased flexibility and range of motion, reduced joint pain, stronger, more relaxed muscles, improved mood, and overall well-being.
These wellness initiatives are all included in your monthly service fee—because we believe you can’t put a price tag on physical fitness. That means as a resident of Roland Park Place, you have unlimited access to all of our wellness classes and programs at no additional charge.
Fitness
We know maintaining the highest level of autonomy and independence matters to you. It matters to us, too. And it’s a key component of the wellness initiative at Roland Park Place. We know that active aging can extend healthy life expectancy and quality of life.
We’re an active partner to those seeking well-being, and the Fitness Center is where the journey to balanced wellness begins. Our certified senior fitness specialists assist and educate residents on the latest, most effective, and most enjoyable methods for exercising in a fun and responsible way.
We offer expansive opportunities to remain physically strong, independent, and mobile. Fitness classes are offered six days a week, addressing senior-specific challenges such as balance, strength, arthritis, and osteoporosis. In addition, a resident walking club offers new and exciting opportunities to get moving while taking in the sights of Charm City.
With all of the Roland Park Place fitness amenities included in the monthly service fee, there are countless reasons to take full advantage of the rejuvenating health benefits of active aging.
Aquatics
The Aquatics Program at Roland Park Place includes group fitness classes in the pool, five mornings a week. We use our large, heated therapy pool not only for recreational swimming, but also for the soothing, therapeutic benefits of water exercise, including water walking and water aerobics.
Included in your monthly service fee, water-based exercise is known to relieve pain and stiffness, increase functional mobility and circulation, and improve balance and coordination.
The Aquatics Center is also available for free swim and family time in the afternoons and Saturday mornings. Our Aquatics team welcomes residents’ families to enjoy water exercise together, even just for fun.
