From the very beginning, founder and CEO Dwayne Clark believed the industry had great intentions but was failing older adults. He built Áegis Living around a single idea: surround residents with hospitality-grade service, big-hearted people, and an unrelenting drive to innovate.
Dwayne Clark started his career with a literal black box — a place to drop ideas for how senior living could be better. Today every Aegis community has its own black box, and every team member is empowered to surprise and delight residents. That spirit is built into how we hire, train, and operate.
Aegis pulled best practices from Costco, Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Four Seasons — not from traditional senior-care playbooks. Our leadership includes the former president of Four Seasons properties, ex-Nike global operations, and Microsoft alumni. The result: communities that feel like a hospitality experience, not an institution.
From Top 50 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor to Great Place to Work® certification to the Fortune Best Workplaces in Aging Services list. The Potato Soup Foundation helps team members and their families in extreme times of need. We promote from within through ELEVATE, our five-month leadership-development program.
Decades of research into longevity and brain health (CEO Dwayne Clark's Amazon best-seller 30 Summers More distills the work) directly shape our Cognitive Compass program, our memory-care architecture, and our daily resident programming.
Through Aegis Development LLC — led by Adam Clark — we design and build our own communities with sustainability, accessibility, and resident dignity as the brief. Every property pushes the industry forward.
Dwayne supports 70+ local and global charities and founded five of his own. The Aegis Living Foundation, Queen Bee Coffee, and the Potato Soup Foundation channel that ethos into the company's day-to-day.
“We weren’t trying to build another senior living company. We were trying to build a better way to live the second half of life.”
The best way to understand what makes Aegis different is to spend an afternoon in one of our communities — meet the team, eat from our seasonal menu, and ask the hard questions.
