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BY KAREN CHANEY
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 Grapevine, Colleyville, Southlake, Westlake and Trophy Club. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists and aim to support the local businesses in our community. In this year’s senior living guide, we dive in to show how seniors can keep a social and healthy lifestyle through local communities, such as the Colleyville Senior Center. We take a look on how to protect loved ones from being nancial exploited by scams targeting seniors and the ways nonpro t organization Serving Our Seniors helps locals maintain a safe and independent lifestyle. 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.
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Learn how one nonpro t helps seniors throughout Tarrant County (Page 27)
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Check out what local senior living communities have to o er (Page 28)
How to recognize and avoid nancial scams targeting seniors (Page 31)
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Colleyville Senior Center creates social environment
Following a two-year renovation project, Colleyville Senior Center reopened in January. In addition to a modernized aesthetic, rooms were recon gured to allow di erent programs to be o ered, including a variety of new exercise and educational options. What they o er As the senior center supervisor, Cody Ashton oversees the facility and helps plan programs. The center schedules day trips to places like WinStar World Casino, Texas Rangers games, the State Fair of Texas, local museums and more. Ashton said yoga and tai chi classes o ered at the center are well attended. There is a common area where members often meet to play board and card games. A tness room equipped with weights and cardio machines is also available to members. “If somebody’s taking a class and staying active, it’s bene cial [to their health],” Ashton said. “We
also have the social bene ts of getting out of the house, attending lunches and meeting new people.” Who it’s for People 50 years and older can get a membership, which is free for Colleyville residents and $10 per year for non-residents. Quote of note Ashton said he earned a degree in recreation but he did not intend on focusing on seniors. He started working at Colleyville Senior Center 12 years ago and has been surprised at how much he enjoys this demographic. “Cody has been everybody’s grandson, every- body’s son,” said Lisa Escobedo, Colleyville’s Director of Parks and Recreation. “They gravitate toward him. His kind and calm demeanor is just very infectious with the seniors. You know he’s going to take care of them and make the events and programming fun.”
Tai chi is one of the popular exercise classes o ered at Colleyville Senior Center.
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