Morningside of Springfield

12/14/2025

We are wishing you a bright and blessed Hanukkah. Enjoy celebrating this day of light and triumph with friends, family and loved ones!

12/01/2025

We all know someone who we struggle to buy gifts for. Often, that can be our older loved ones. Here, you can read about our ideas for thoughtful presents for seniors this holiday season and how they help enrich the life of your loved one.

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11/27/2025

Today is the day to be thankful, grateful and joyful. We’re giving thanks to all of our incredible residents, our stunning team and everyone else who helps us continue our legacy!

11/17/2025

Join us for Friendsgiving on November 21 from 2 – 4 p.m. We’ll have delicious food to enjoy as you get to know residents and team members. https://tutera.pulse.ly/8utojloyls

11/14/2025

We want to make sure you and your loved ones are staying safe and well this holiday season – that’s why we’ve created a list of things to look out for! https://tutera.pulse.ly/kuvk4gpbt7

11/11/2025

Honor. Courage. Sacrifice. These are the things that make veterans heroes. Thank you to all of those who have served our country and protected our freedom!

11/10/2025

Join us for Friendsgiving on November 20 from 4 – 6 p.m. We’ll have delicious food to enjoy as you get to know residents and team members. https://tutera.pulse.ly/szrqup0h1w

10/13/2025

04/03/2023

When flowers are bloomin' we get groovin'

Check out this week's playlist and be sure to let us know which tunes are your favorite ⬇️ 🎶

Playlist · Five Star Senior Living · 15 songs · 2 likes

02/24/2023

In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting some historical figures who continued making important contributions well into their senior years.

Former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek was 66 years old when she was elected to represent Florida in Congress in 1992, becoming the first Black Floridian to do so since the Reconstruction era. The daughter of a sharecropper and the granddaughter of a woman who was born enslaved, Meek was a fierce advocate for South Florida’s Black communities, immigrants, and the working poor.

She is a tremendous example of someone who never stopped advancing throughout her life, even in the face of both racial and age discrimination. In fact, when one of her opponents in the 1992 Congressional race tried to turn her age into a campaign issue, Meek saw it as an advantage. “He should continue to say that I’m too old,” she said, “because the folks that are going to get out and vote are going to be my age or around my age, and they’re told every day they’re too old. He’s doing nothing but helping us.”

She never lost a reelection race and went on to serve in Congress for 10 years. She retired from politics in 2003 at the age of 76 but continued to run the Carrie Meek Foundation until 2015. Learn more about Carrie Meek and her life at the links below:

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02/17/2023

In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting some important figures in history who continued making meaningful contributions well into their senior years.

Percy Julian is regarded as one of the most influential chemists in the modern age, despite having to endure both overt and systemic racism throughout his life.

With his local high schools unwilling to accept Black students, Julian took high school-level classes at night at DePauw University. Although DePauw gave him the opportunity to continue pursuing his education, it was anything but easy. Due to the segregated nature of the campus, he wasn’t allowed to live in a college dormitory and first stayed in an off-campus boarding home, but that home refused to serve him meals. It took him days to find an establishment where he could eat. Despite all he endured, Julian graduated from DePauw in 1920 as valedictorian.

He went on to earn international acclaim for developing a drug to treat glaucoma in 1935. His work on chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants also laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids and birth control pills. He became the first Black chemist (and second Black person from any field) elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Despite his great success, he still found that his race was a factor in denying him academic and research positions, so he established his own laboratory at the age of 55. After selling his lab at age 64, he then founded the Julian Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that he ran until his death ten years later. Learn more about his life and work here: https://bit.ly/2BfVgzB

02/10/2023

In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting some important figures in history who continued making meaningful contributions during their senior years.

Actress Nichelle Nichols has broken some major color barriers in her career. Her 1966 portrayal of Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series was groundbreaking as she was one of the first Black actresses to play something other than stereotypical maid and housekeeper roles. She was also one of the first Black actors to have a prominent role in a science fiction series. One of the things that made her role on Star Trek so special was that Uhura’s storyline wasn’t focused on race, which helped set a new standard around inclusivity and representation in entertainment.

In fact, when she considered leaving Star Trek for a role on Broadway, a conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed her mind. “For the first time on television, we will be seen as we should be seen every day, as intelligent, quality, beautiful people who can sing and dance, yes, but who can go into space, who can be lawyers and teachers, who can be professors—who are in this day—yet you don’t see it on television until now.”

Nichols’ influence was not limited to the silver screen. From 1977 to 2015, she volunteered her time to promote NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, helping to recruit diverse astronauts, including women and ethnic minorities.

Nichols truly embodies the spirit of “Never Stop Advancing,” as she continued to work well into her golden years. She retired from space advocacy and acting in December 2021 at the age of 88 and passed away in July 2022. Learn more about her historic career here: https://bit.ly/3jsHUJS