Affordable
Rent, utilities, weekly housekeeping, and twenty home-cooked meals are all included in one monthly fee.
Independent senior living · Chattanooga
A gracious community
A gracious community
for the next chapter of home.
Caldsted Foundation has welcomed seniors of modest means into a warm, supportive community since 1965. Affordable rent. Twenty meals a week. Friendships next door.
Welcoming residents 65+ now
To provide seniors housing with services in a gracious community that promotes independence for individuals with limited resources.
— Our Mission
Why Caldsted
Six reasons residents stay for years.
Living independently shouldn't mean choosing between a roof, a meal, and a friend.
Companionship
Fifty-plus neighbors, daily gatherings, and an open-door culture that keeps the days full.
Community support
A thoughtful events calendar, shared meals, and the quiet kind of looking-out-for-each-other.
A great location
In the heart of Brainerd, minutes from groceries, pharmacies, banks, restaurants, and houses of worship.
Independence with services
Transportation, laundry, maintenance, and concierge support — so you keep your routine, not your chores.
New friendships
Hobbies rediscovered, card tables in the lounge, evenings on the porch. The good kind of busy.
1965
Our Story
Founded by Roland & Elsie Olmsted
The Caldsted Foundation began as a quiet act of generosity. In 1965, Roland and Elsie Olmsted set out to support retired neighbors of modest means — people who had worked all their lives and deserved to age with dignity, in good company.
The name Caldsted joins their two surnames: a small reminder of where this began, and the values that still guide every decision sixty years later.
Read our story
No qualified individual will be excluded from participation in, or the benefits of, the programs or activities administered by the Caldsted Foundation Inc., based on race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, familial status, age, disability, or any other class protected under state or federal law.— Our Fair-Housing Commitment
Apartments are limited.
Lists are open.
Studio and one-bedroom waiting lists are accepting applications. We'll reach out the moment a residence becomes available.