Community
BY CONNOR PITTMAN
Senior Living Guide
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual Community Impact senior living edition. It’s that time of year when many of us gather with family for the holidays. A season filled with laughter, traditions and meaningful conversations. It’s also often when we begin to notice subtle changes in the well-being of our aging parents or loved ones and start thinking about how best to support them. In this year’s Senior Living Guide, we’ve put together resources to help make those next steps easier. You’ll find details on a ride-sharing service for seniors, along with a full guide to local senior living communities–including costs, services and helpful information to support informed, compassionate decision-making. Additionally, there is also information showing the changes in the local senior population over the past several years. Thank you for welcoming us into your home this year. Wishing you and your loved ones a warm, peaceful and joyful holiday season.
What's inside
Check out more on the changes in the local senior population (Page 22)
Lexi Canivel General Manager lcanivel@ communityimpact.com
See a list of area independent, assisted living places for seniors (Page 23)
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Span ridership in Flower Mound increases, trips eclipse 3.5K
More than 52,500 rides were taken through Span, Inc. by around 1,000 individuals across Denton County in 2024, according to ridership data. Span offers shared rides to seniors 65 years old and older, and individuals with disabilities through- out Denton County, including riders starting their trips in Flower Mound. How it works Span operates as the designated rural trans- portation provider in Denton County, but it also has contracts with certain municipalities, such as Flower Mound, Little Elm and Coppell, that govern the services provided, said Layton Woodul, Span’s director of development and community relations. Before booking a trip with Span, individuals can fill out an online application, or submit one by email to span@span-transit.org , fax or mail. To schedule rides, individuals must call 940-382-1900 at least one day in advance, but no more than two weeks before a trip. FLOWER MOUND - HIGHLAND VILLAGE - ARGYLE EDITION
The impact Woodul said Span has provided its trips to over 1,000 individuals countywide. Jennings added that the number of unduplicated riders in Flower Mound was 57 during the 20245 fiscal year, but it has increased to 76 in the 2025-26 fiscal year. During FY 24-25, Flower Mound riders took more than 3,500 trips . For the 2025-26 fiscal year, council approved allocating $40,973 from federal commu- nity development block grant funds for Span. “Our mission is to ensure that every individual in Denton County—regardless of age, ability, or income—has access to the essential services and connections that support a full and independent life,” Woodul said in an email. Some context Flower Mound originally contracted Span in 2005, left in 2008 and recontracted the nonprofit in 2009, Jennings said. In that time, the types of trips
Yearly Span trips 2019-24 More than 52,500 trips were taken across Denton County using Span’s services.
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SOURCE: SPAN DENTON COUNTY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
eligible through the program have changed. “As things come up and seniors make requests, we try to visit with Span every year because it’s a yearly contract,” Jennings said.
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