George Bridges

Por Rita Beamish

AARP Experience Corps, a highly successful intergenerational effort, is expanding in the Phoenix area. By enlisting volunteers 50 and older as tutors, Experience Corps has made significant headway in helping children who have struggled with reading in grades K-3.

AARP Wyoming invites people attending the annual NIC Fest to stop by its booth at the vendor fair.

AARP is committed to serving everyone 50-plus—including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) and their families. AARP DC is a sponsor for the 40th Celebration of PRIDE in the Nation’s Capital, June 3-14. The AARP DC State Office is seeking volunteers to help decorate the AARP DC parade float and march with us in the June 13 parade.

The AARP state offices in Ohio and Michigan are encouraging members who care for an aging parent or other loved one to share their stories with millions of other people who perform the same important work and may need advice or a sympathetic ear.

Want to make the nation’s capital more accessible for older and disabled people? Go for a walk. While strolling with other AARP volunteers during the next few months, you can identify areas that need to be more navigable for the District’s aging population.

Chances are, you’ll live a decade beyond your driving years—12 years longer on average, if you’re female. That can make it challenging to get to medical appointments, stores and leisure activities accessible only by car.

Virginia’s unemployment rate has been inching down as the nation emerges from the Great Recession. Even so, 4.8 percent of Virginia workers were unemployed in December.

By Merry MacKinnon

By Ralph Richberg