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AARP Arkansas shares some helpful resources from AARP as well as community partners in our state. Items range from elder fraud to broadband. Learn more in this post.
Kick off our 2025 Listening Sessions in Wrightsville (and surrounding cities) and Elaine. Community members are encouraged to share thoughts on transportation, housing, and more.
AARP Arkansas' Portal Champions offer Trainings
Thinking of becoming a volunteer or returning to AARP Arkansas? Stop by one of our events and learn more.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to today’s U.S. Senate vote on the motion to proceed to consider a health care bill that would cut Medicare and Medicaid and impose an Age Tax on older Americans, AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond released the following statement:
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) by a razor-thin margin. In this video, our State Volunteer President explains how the AHCA would substantially raise costs and limit health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of Arkansans. Call 844-222-0110 and urge Senator Tom Cotton to do the right thing—and oppose this bad, high-cost bill.
New Scorecard shows where Arkansas needs improvement to serve older adults, people with disabilities
LITTLE ROCK— AARP_FS_LTSS2017_Arkansas_061017 , and AARP warns much more must be done, at an accelerated pace, to meet changing demographic demands. Specific areas of concern in Arkansas include effective transitions between nursing homes, hospitals and homes.
FORT SMITH—The Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free Family Caregiver Workshop on Friday, June 23 with a optional supplemental workshop Friday, June 30 for those who would like to learn about caring for an adult with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
Vickie Garner of Hot Springs is among the many Arkansans ages 50 to 64 with serious concerns about how the American Health Care Act would affect them. Please click the video below for Vickie's story, then scroll down for additional information.
Over 575,000 Arkansans rely on Medicare to help pay for their prescription drugs, doctor visits and hospitalizations. AARP Arkansas volunteer Joy Crow explains how the new healthcare bill weakens Medicare by reducing spending, hastening Medicare’s insolvency and increasing premiums. Instead of giving a windfall to pharmaceutical companies, Congress should do more to reduce the burden of high prescription drug costs!
Technology has spurred great advances in medicine, and now it’s improving access to health care as well. Beginning July 30, a new state law will allow patients to initiate an audiovisual visit with a doctor from home or another remote location.
AARP Arkansas State Volunteer President Charlie Wagener in a column published May 28, 2017, in the Southwest Times Record— "Health-care act is unfair, unaffordable”—explains why the health care bill currently before the U.S. Senate would be bad for Arkansans, especially those 50 and over. Based in Fort Smith, the Times Record is Arkansas' second-largest daily newspaper by circulation.
AARP Arkansas seeks nominees for the 2017 Andrus State Award for Community Service, AARP's most prestigious and visible volunteer tribute.
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