Ask Senate Finance to Support Caregivers

Ask Senate Finance to Support Caregivers

Posted on 06/19/2013 by | AARP Rhode Island | Comments

Advocacy | Health & Wellbeing | Home & Family | Rhode Island AARP Rhode Island continues to work with a coalition including the RI Women’s Fund and the Senior Agenda on a bill to establish a Temporary Caregiver Insurance (TCI) program for caregivers similar to Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI).  With TDI, there is paid time off when you are ill – with TCI it allows time off to care for a seriously ill family member.  As with TDI, it is totally funded by employee contributions.  The current estimate is that each employee would pay …

June 12 Lobby Day

June 12 Lobby Day

Posted on 06/13/2013 by | AARP Rhode Island | Comments

Advocacy | Press | Rhode Island AARP Rhode Island  Visits Capitol Hill to Urge Separate Social Security and Press for Responsible Solutions to Strengthen Medicare  WASHINGTON, DC (June 12, 2013) – AARP volunteers and staff from Rhode Island and every other state in the nation visited Capitol Hill today to express opposition to the President’s proposed Social Security benefit cut known as Chained CPI and to support responsible solutions to strengthen Medicare for Rhode Islanders.  Meeting with Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, Representatives James Langevin and David Cicilline and their …

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Live Well Training Volunteers Needed

Posted on 06/1/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Health & Wellbeing | Rhode Island | Volunteering AARP Rhode Island is seeking volunteers for Living Well Rhode Island, the Stanford University-based chronic disease self-management training program that provides free workshops statewide. Volunteer trainers are needed to help run the 2½-hour classes, which are taught in English and Spanish and cover dealing with pain and fatigue, making better nutrition and exercise choices, and understanding treatment options. “This program has been an important resource for the state’s growing Hispanic population, which suffers from diabetes at nearly double the rate …

Watch Hungry in the West End

Watch Hungry in the West End

Posted on 05/30/2013 by | AARP Rhode Island | Comments

Advocacy | Health & Wellbeing | Rhode Island   Our multi-media exploration of senior hunger in Providence’s West End community includes a multi-part video documentary produced, directed and narrated by AARP Rhode Island’s John Martin and Web-based stories by Jody McPhillips.  <Click the image below to watch the episodes in order or to select an episode> ARPRI AARPRI Hungry in the West End AARPRI Episode 1: The Growing Problem Episode 2: Doing More with Less Episode 3: Food for the Soul Episode 4: Emergency Episode 5: What Is Affordable? Episode 6: …

Community Suppers at St. Martin de Porres Community Center

Community Suppers at St. Martin de Porres Community Center

Posted on 05/29/2013 by | AARP Rhode Island | Comments

Health & Wellbeing | Rhode Island | Volunteering Members of the West End Community and Upper South Providence are invited to attend a new series of community suppers for the purpose of getting more people involved in activities and services at St. Martin de Porres Community Center. The event takes place the second Wednesday of the month through October. Suppers are served at 5 p.m. followed by an informational talk and live entertainment that goes until 7 p.m. A $3 donation is requested to cover the cost of food, …

Become a Back to School Celebration Volunteer

Become a Back to School Celebration Volunteer

Posted on 05/29/2013 by | AARP Rhode Island | Comments

Home & Family | Rhode Island | Volunteering  Summer means another opportunity to help get Rhode Island school children of to a great start of the school year. The annual Back to School Celebration — now in its 15th year — provides new backpacks filled with school supplies and nutritional information to some 15,000 students. The effort not only encourages learning, but helps families that struggle with back-to-school purchases. Volunteers are needed for packing the backpacks on August 3 (tentative date) and distribution on August 17. To volunteer, email  Deborah Miller …

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