Search “adult day care Garland TX” and most of the first page is directory listings. The one Garland center that ranks with its own site does not mention dementia and does not publish a price. Garland has several adult day providers, but the ones we found in September 2026 serve Medicaid clients, a specific language community or adults with intellectual disabilities. None said it runs a dementia program.  

That matters for the 31,085 Garland residents aged 65 and older counted in the Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey, 12.6% of the city. A parent with memory loss needs staff who expect confusion, repetition and restlessness, and who know how to redirect them without an argument. That is the only kind of program we run.

From Garland City Hall on North 5th Street, OpenStreetMap routing takes you west on Belt Line Road, north on Garland Avenue, west on Arapaho Road, then Collins Boulevard and Campbell Road to our center on Nantucket Drive near Custer. It is 9.8 miles and about 20 minutes without freeway driving. From north Garland, near Firewheel, many families take the President George Bush Turnpike west instead.  

We open at 7:30 AM and close at 5:30 PM, Monday through Friday. A full day runs up to ten and a half hours.

Garland and Richardson are both DART member cities, so a trip from a Garland home to our center stays inside DART’s paratransit area. DART Paratransit serves people who cannot use a bus or train on their own because of a physical, cognitive or visual disability, and dementia can qualify. DART decides eligibility through a free in-person assessment; call 214-749-3278.  

We do not provide transportation ourselves. The city’s senior van, which runs free weekday trips for residents 60 and older, only goes to Garland senior centers and to doctors inside Garland city limits, so it cannot bring your parent to Richardson.  

Schedule a Tour and ask us how other families handle drop-off.

The federal hospital list from CMS shows no general acute-care hospital with a Garland address. The closest are Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Lake Pointe, on Scenic Drive in Rowlett, and Methodist Richardson Medical Center on the Bush Turnpike, not far from our center. That makes daytime health care matter more for Garland families, not less.  

A licensed nurse is on duty at our center every day we are open. The nurse can give medications or remind members to take them, check blood pressure, test glucose, assist with oxygen, carry out treatments ordered by a physician, and track weight month to month. Staff help with walking, transfers and toileting, including incontinence care. When something seems off, we call you right away, and a member who feels unwell rests in the nurse’s office or our bedroom with staff beside them until family or paramedics arrive.