Intellectual Wellness is lifelong learning, the active pursuit of knowledge. It is valuing many experiences, staying stimulated with new ideas, improving memory and exercising the brain. It is the excitement of personal growth, the eagerness to seek out and use new information. It is responding to challenges and opportunities for personal and social development. It is making plans, developing strategies and solving problems. It is wondering and dreaming, appreciating and marveling.

Residents stretch their minds and enrich their knowledge in a variety of ways:
Book magic, computer instruction, puzzle tables, travelogues, formal classes, the Library, Seagull Chatter, reading and research, writing histories, listening to experts, attendance at the opera, symphony, local concerts, the Chrysler Museum and other exhibits, the Virginia Arts Festival, performing arts, the Norfolk Forum and public lectures.