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Seniors and Retirees

If you’re looking for a more relaxed, slower pace of life once you retire, Alma is for you. And if you’re looking for a full life, stuffed with plenty of opportunities and activities for your golden years, Alma is for you, too. In addition to offering some of the most affordable housing available anywhere, Alma has the wide streets, big trees, and low traffic, crime and tax rates many seniors will find appealing.

The Alma Senior Center is a modern, attractive facility where many seniors meet for noon meals, cards, crafts and good conversation. A wide range of services is available through the Senior Center, including transportation, educational opportunities, social services and recreational activities. The Senior Center can also help you get chores done you can’t do on your own, provide legal advice, and help you with your income taxes.

Healthcare is an issue for many seniors, and that’s one place Alma shines. The Harlan County Hospital is a 25 bed facility in Alma with a full range of short-term acute care and outpatient services. It is currently undergoing a $6 million expansion, with a large addition and renovation of the existing facility. A licensed ambulance service with Emergency Medical Technicians is available to provide emergency transportation, and Good Samaritan Air Care in Kearney provides emergency helicopter transportation to a trauma center just minutes away from Alma if needed.

Colonial Villa Good Samaritan Center (http://www.goodsam.com) is conveniently located just north of downtown and is a 56 bed intermediate care facility. 24-hour nursing care is available in a home-like atmosphere with a scenic campus.

Alma also has Hillcrest Terrace Assisted Living which consists of 12 units with 24-hour staffing, three meals per day, regularly scheduled transportation, a variety of senior services and off-street parking.

A wide variety of outdoor activities – hiking, bird watching, hunting, fishing, golf and much more – are practically at your doorstep in Alma.

If you are looking for educational opportunities, the Central Community College system (http://www.cccneb.edu/) offers classes in the Alma area, as well as having campuses throughout the region. The University of Nebraska-Kearney campus is also only about an hour’s drive from Alma (http://www.unk.edu/).