Jamie Bulen

The following information is being reprinted -- with permission -- from New Hampshire Union Leader’s Senior News column (August 11, 2014).

If you’re like most women, you’re a master planner. You plan your career, your wedding, your children’s education and social activities, your family vacations and holidays. Orchestrating so many life events for others can leave you with little time for yourself. However, planning for your own tomorrow is vitally important. If you don’t plan for yourself, someone else will plan for you.

Attention foodies!

The Way to Well Health Tour – which travels the country delivering free health tests, education and consultations to adults 18 and over – is coming to Manchester and Nashua! The preventive and early detection health services offered through the tour provide a baseline status of visitors' overall health.

The United Hospital Fund and AARP Public Policy Institute issued a report with compelling new evidence that family caregivers who provide complex chronic care to people who also have cognitive and behavioral health conditions face particularly demanding challenges, including high levels of self-reported depression. As a result, a majority of them (61 percent) reported feeling stress “sometimes to always,” between their caregiving responsibilities and trying to meet other work or family obligations.

In celebration of the 79 th anniversary of the creation of Social Security, AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond issued the following statement:

Is starting a small business right for you? Do you have a great business idea? Need basic information on what to do next, understand how much it will cost, and find out where to go for assistance?

It’s AARP’s inaugural craft beer day on Saturday, August 16 at two local breweries: Milly’s Tavern in Manchester and White Birch Brewing in Hooksett.

The Millyard Museum is offering a $3 discount on admission and a special lecture for AARP members and their guests on Saturday, September 13. Admission includes access to all the exhibits as well as a special lecture on Before Peyton Place: In Search of the Real Grace Metalious. Museum hours are 10:00 to 4:00 with the special lecture at 11:00.

It wouldn't be summer in New Hampshire without the 81 st Annual Craftsmen’s Fair – August 2 through 10, 2014 – at Mount Sunapee Resort in Newbury. And this year, AARP members receive a $7 admission at the gate when they show their membership card.