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Natural Beauty, Water Recreation and
Affordable Living Draw Retirees to Mountain Home, Arkansas
Cost of Living: Below the National Average
| Four relatively mild seasons are another
reason retirees come to Mountain Home; summers, however,
can get quite hot with temperatures in the mid-80s and
low 90s and plenty of humidity, particularly in July and
August. Winter highs are in the mid-40s with
lows in the 20s; one to four inches of snow come perhaps
once a year and melt quickly. Tornados are
not uncommon but rarely cause damage. The
area receives roughly 45 inches of precipitation a year.
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A drawback to retirement here is the medical care.
Baxter Regional Medical Center is the primary health care
facility, but it does not rank well when it comes to
addressing common medical concerns, including heart attacks,
strokes and respiratory failure. Mountain Home is 110
miles from Springfield, Missouri and 150 miles from Little
Rock, Arkansas, where better medical facilities are
located. These towns, though, can be a little far in
an emergency situation.
Mountain Home has more than fifty houses of worship and
has a strong tradition of volunteerism. The town has
in fact been named Volunteer Community of the Year for
sixteen years. Opportunities can be found at the
Baxter Regional Medical Center (which apparently needs all
the help it can get), the Baxter County Historical Society,
the Baxter County Library and the Audubon Society, to name a
few. The Arkansas State University offers classes to
seniors tuition-free on a limited basis.
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The non-profit Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Arkansas has a
solid reputation and works with seniors (those 60 and above) by
offering a number of services, including delivery of medical
supplies, providing transportation, providing in-home services,
organizing medications, locating local resources as needed and
managing apartment houses for seniors with low and moderate
incomes. In Mountain Home, the apartment complex is the
Willowbrook Senior Complex (870-425-6433);
it has 26 apartments for seniors with annual incomes less than
$14,200 (single) and $16,250 (couple). The AAANWAR also
manages the Arthur L. Van Matre Senior
Services Center (870) 424-3054) in Mountain Home; here seniors
partake in classes, hot meals, dances, workshops and more.
In addition to the less-than-adequate medical care, another
drawback to retirement here is the lack of public
transportation. Ethnic diversity is also lacking, and for
seniors needing to work in retirement, this is not the place to do
it as jobs are limited.
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