Senior Living in Memphis, Tennessee

About the Memphis Area

Memphis blends soulful music history with Southern hospitality, from the historical clubs of Beale Street to the shaded streets of its established neighborhoods. Families and visitors find no shortage of ways to spend time together, whether it’s experiencing the city’s vast musical legacy, catching a game day downtown or settling in for a slow Sunday meal.

Restaurants and Dining

Memphis is a barbecue capital where you can find everything from classic pit barbecue to Southern comfort food and farm-to-table dining. Areas and spots worth knowing:

• The Bartlett and Wolfchase area — has a wide range of familiar sit-down restaurants along the Germantown Parkway and Stage Road corridors, plus local favorites such as Tops Bar-B-Q

• Downtown and the riverfront — home to landmark barbecue like Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous and a growing set of chef-driven restaurants

• Beale Street — the city's famous entertainment street, lined with restaurants and live music

Arts and Entertainment

Memphis is the birthplace of blues and soul. Cultural highlights include Beale Street for live blues, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum and Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. The Orpheum Theatre, a restored downtown theater, hosts touring Broadway shows and concerts and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Dixon Gallery and Gardens round out the visual arts scene. 

Outdoor Activities

Shelby Farms Park, one of the largest urban parks in the country, sits just south of Bartlett and includes the flat, paved Shelby Farms Greenline, well suited for an easy, accessible walk. The Memphis Botanic Garden and Overton Park offer gardens and shaded paths and the downtown riverfront and Big River Crossing pedestrian bridge give visitors scenic views of the Mississippi.

Memphis Weather

Memphis is located in the Mid-South, so summers run long and humid, peaking in July and August, and winters are short and mild with snow a rarity. Spring arrives early, often by March, and fall stays warm well into November, which gives the region two long, comfortable stretches for outdoor enjoyment.

Travel and Accommodations

For visiting loved ones, Memphis International Airport (MEM) has nonstop flights to major cities across the country. Interstate 40 runs straight in from Nashville, about three hours east and Little Rock is a little over two hours west. Hotels line the Wolfchase and Germantown Parkway corridor near American House communities.

Senior Living Resources in Memphis

Healthcare and Emergency Services

Memphis is home to leading hospital networks including Baptist Memorial Health Care, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Regional One Health as well as local hospitals such as Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett. 

American House on-site teams coordinate care directly with local hospitals and specialists across the Baptist and Methodist systems.

Programming and Activities

Within our communities, we work with local groups to complement our extensive and varied senior-specific programming. Churches come in for prayer and gospel music, Memphis musicians play and therapy dogs make regular visits. 

Local outings include Shelby Farms Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden, trips to Graceland and the Stax Museum, shopping at Wolfchase Galleria and seasonal events like the Memphis in May festival and the holiday lights at the Botanic Garden. 

View our community pages for the current calendar of events.