Beaumont Senior Gardening Opportunity – Public Vegetable Gardens let SETX Seniors Exercise their Green Thumbs

Beaumont Senior Activities Raised Garden Lets Southeast Texas Seniors Exercise their Green Thumbs!   The Giving Field 2895 Liberty St. Beaumont, TX 77702 Learn More Lamar University Community Garden 4400 S. MLK Beaumont, TX 77710 Learn More Mid County Victory Garden 1028 Nederland Ave. Nederland, Texas Learn More Mobile Farmer’s Market Slow Food Beaumont Beaumont, TX Learn More Farmer’s Market 6455 College Beaumont, Texas 77707 Learn More    Read More

East Texas Senior News – Credit Tips for Retirees

Southeast Texas Retirement Planning You have never had bad credit; make sure you also don’t have “no credit”. You’ve spent your whole life managing your money with flawless proficiency. You have a sparkling credit score and very little debt. But is it possible to get to a point where you have so little debt that you could actually fail to register a credit score? For Golden Triangle senior citizens who have paid off most of their major debts, such as... Read More

Senior Activities – Enjoy Cool Summer Treats Made at Home

Activity Guide for Senior Citizens  East Texas and Golden Triangle Region As temperatures climb this summer, cool down with tasty and colorful frozen treat recipes for your next backyard barbecue or pool party. Offer everyone’s favorite summertime treats – ice cream, sherbet and sorbet – in unique and unexpected ways, such as in refreshing beverages, delicious cake bars or whimsical parfaits. Mold frozen ingredients into bite-size treats using melon ball scoops... Read More

Caring for Your Southeast Texas Grandkids? Agencies Offer Much-Needed Help

Southeast Texas Grandparent’s Guide Help is Available for Seniors Taking Care of their Grandchildren Are you looking for information on caring for your grandkids in Southeast Texas? Almost all parents look forward to acquiring the new title of grandma or grandpa. Some get that plus one more thing: custody of  grandkids and a long-term commitment to care for them in their own homes. This is a reality for many Southeast Texas grandparents – it can be rewarding, but... Read More

Southeast Texas Senior News “Unburied Treasure: A Guide to Leaving Your Legacy”

Inspiration for Seniors in East Texas and The Golden Triangle Make Sure YOUR Story Lives On On today’s Southeast Texas senior news, we look at our Southeast Texas senior legacies- preserving our stories for family and for future generations. We have so many stories to tell – and too often our stories do not outlive us. At SETX Seniors  Magazine and SETXSeniors.com we love telling your stories – but we know you have so much more to share. Today we look at a book... Read More

SETX Senior News – Coping with Hearing Loss in a Social Setting

Senior Health News for Southeast Texas Coping with Hearing Loss in Social Settings On this edition of SETX Senior News, we look at issues surrounding hearing loss. For most of us, ignoring hearing loss is easier when we’re alone. We can turn up the volume on the TV or radio as loud as we want (disclaimer- mine is turned up pretty loud now!), and when alone we don’t have to ask anyone to repeat what they just said. But how do Southeast Texas seniors with hearing... Read More

Best Years Senior Center Lets Active Beaumont Seniors Discover a Love for Ceramics

Southeast Texas seniors looking to add some variety to their ceramics work should swing by the Best Years Senior Center and check out their extensive collection of ceramics molds. The molds were generously donated by the Ceramics Orange Club.  The new ceramics molds will help ensure there is plenty of variety for Southeast Texas seniors who are feeling artistic. Ceramics is a great activity for those spending time at the Best Years Senior Center in Beaumont for several reasons. First,... Read More

Beaumont Seniors- Intermediate Spanish Lessons at Best Years Senior Center

Senior Center Beaumont TX – The Best Years offers intermediate Spanish sessions twice a week. For active Beaumont seniors, learing Spanish can open up a whole new world of opportunity- meeting new people, travelling, even interacting with visitors at our Southeast Texas churches and civic groups. Learning a foreign language can be a wonderful activity for Beaumont senior citizens.  It is easiest when done at a young age, but it is never too late for learning. Southeast... Read More

Tips for choosing Southeast Texas home health care agency that is right for you or your loved one

Harbor Home Health is dedicated to providing news and information about home care to Southeast Texas seniors. For many Golden Triangle seniors, choosing a Southeast Texas home health company can greatly increase quality of life. Southeast Texas seniors love their homes – Harbor Home Health helps them stay in them longer. Recovering from an illness or injury can be easier with home health care, which provides you with a wide range of services to help you recover in the comfort... Read More

Visit SETX History: Chambers House Beaumont

The Chambers House was built in 1906. In 1914, C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers purchased the house and moved in with their two daughters, Ruth who was 12 years old and Florence who was 2 years old. Ruth and Florence never married and lived in the house after Mr. & Mrs. Chambers passed away.  After Florence’s death in May of 2004, the Beaumont Heritage Society got the first glimpse of the interior of the house. It was a treasure trove of furniture, personal items... Read More

Explore Washington DC with the Best Years Center

The Best Years Center Day Trips have been eagerly anticipated outings for local seniors for a long while. This year the Best Years Center  is stepping their trips up a pretty big notch by adding new vacations packages for seniors that bring them quite a ways from their homes in Southeast Texas. One of the trips will be to Washington DC, with the help from Travel with Collete Vacations, and this DC trip will have Southeast Texas Seniors exploring just about every inch of the... Read More