Community
BY CODY THORN
Senior Living Guide
2024
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Senior Living Guide! This guide features the latest updates and resources on senior living options in Keller, Roanoke and Northeast Fort Worth. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists and aim to support the local businesses in our community, including those that aid resident seniors. In this year’s senior living guide, we chatted with a Dallas-Fort Worth-based nancial expert to explain how to protect loved ones from being nancial exploited by scams targeting seniors. Nonpro t Serving Our Seniors gave us the inside scoop on how the organization helps locals maintain a safe and independent lifestyle, such as volunteering to perform home safety checks for those 65 and older. We also list our guide of the senior living communities in our area and how they can cater to everyone, from independent living to memory care. From your local Community Impact team, we thank you for supporting us as we continue to provide the latest news and information surrounding our seniors.
What's inside
How to recognize and avoid nancial scams targeting seniors, according to a local expert (Page 20)
Gabby Bailey Editor gbailey@ communityimpact.com
Check out what local senior living communities have to o er for every stage of life (Page 22)
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Serving Our Seniors provides aid in Northeast Tarrant County Elizabeth Grace has seen the needs of seniors in Northeast Tarrant County in her four years as the executive director of Serving Our Seniors. The nonpro t is based in Richland Hills and pro- vides services to seniors in 11 cities in the county. The three main needs that Serving Our Seniors provides is transportation, minor home repairs and social outreach. Grace said the organization aids those 65 and older in need extra help and then works to help navigate those situations. She noted the nonpro t provides annual home safety checks through volunteers. How we got here Serving Our Seniors was established in 1981 with a $60 budget for two social workers, Beth Cochran
Serving Our Seniors partners with local schools to provide entertainment from students during various holiday seasons.
PHOTO COURTESY SERVING OUR SENIORS
and Mari Donaldson. They started to make calls to help get needed items for seniors, according to the nonpro t’s website. What they’re saying Grace said that more than 920 seniors have used at least one of their three services through mid-November, but she often has to work with other nonpro t partners, such as Meals On Wheels of Tarrant County, to help meet needs.
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