{"id":296486,"date":"2026-09-29T23:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296486\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:02:38","slug":"berks-encore-senior-expo-medicare-community-resources-and-a-chance-to-mingle-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296486\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks Encore senior expo: Medicare, community resources, and a chance to mingle | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Taking care of our older family members can feel overwhelming. But an event in Reading is helping folks navigate through it all.<\/p>\n<p>Berks Encore held its senior expo at FirstEnergy Stadium Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>People went home with information on everything from Medicare and nutrition to finances and community resources.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Berks Encore senior expo\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abc349650e10.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Chad Blimline<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say it was also a great opportunity for socializing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wonderful! I&#8217;m enjoying the nice walk around and talking with people,&#8221; said Alisa Hiegler, of Exeter Township.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing new friends, seeing people that I know that work out here,&#8221; said Lin Langlois, of Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n<p>The more than 80 vendors also gave out some free goodies like Ensure protein drinks and flashlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Taking care of our older family members can feel overwhelming. But an event in Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-296486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}