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Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is located in North Central Texas.
The Tarrant County Area Agency on Aging has 4 primary ways it interacts with the public and maintains age-friendliness with its residents
- Benefits Counciling: Get free one-on-one advice about Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, QMB/SLMB, disputes over hospital bills, Food Stamps and more by calling a state-certified benefits counselor
- Long Term care Ombudsman: If you have a problem with a long-term care facility, assisted living facilities or other types of residential facility that you can’t resolve yourself, you can call a local ombudsman – a specially-trained advocate who can explain rights, resources and procedures and help identify, investigate and resolve complaints of long-term care facility residents.
- Home Delivered Meals: Meals On Wheels Inc. of Tarrant County prepares and delivers thousands of well-balanced meals to homebound disabled and elderly people every day.
- Congregate Meals at Senior Centers: Sixty and Better serves hot meals to people age 60 and older five days a week at 28 senior centers. These centers also offer free health assessments, nutrition education, physical fitness, legal clinics and more.
Website
Area Agency on AgingContacts
500 N. Main, Ste. 200
Fort Worth, TX 76164-0448
(817) 258-8000
www.unitedwaytarrant.org
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Fort Worth provides a number of facilities for the elderly. I know there are several organizations that provide transportation for the elderly, but I also feel there is more need than solution. Many of the home environments for the elderly are quite lovely, beautifully maintained, well staffed, and completely out of reach for the majority of retirees that could benefit. Not all homes in the surrounding areas provide positive and caring end of life care. I have an elder amputee friend who just experienced such nightmares in a facility in nearby city, where they towed his car without warning among other harassing behaviors. No one deserves this. I help him a lot in things he has trouble doing like transporting him to do his laundry and shopping. Catholic Charities has failed him a number of times, so I feel reliance on some of these entities is iffy at best. Reliance and compassion are important for this work.
My neighborhood is a transitional one with low income as well as middle income families. From an AgeFriendly perspective, safety is a concern as well as transportation that is close for someone to use public transportation. There are few communications that are distributed from the neighborhood whereby a person must due their own due diligence to determine what resources are available.
I love it here
Close to shopping, working.
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Caring people