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With 3.2 million members in California, AARP California strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to older Californians and their families, including health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment.
Los Angeles residents spend an average of 81 hours per year stuck in traffic, waiting for buses and trains, and navigating streets that are unfriendly for bikes and pedestrians. These are hours that could instead be filled with quality time with our families, kids, grandparents, and friends.
AARP educates younger generations about long-term care needs as one in four Californians is expected to be over age 60 by 2030.
California ranks No. 1 in terms of capacity to serve older adults in adult day centers on AARP’s most recent long-term care scorecard. But the industry is struggling nationally and in California, putting vital care for low-income individuals at risk.
For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.
SACRAMENTO -- AARP California has announced that Senator Anna Caballero and Assembly Member Buffy Wicks have been awarded the 2022 AARP California Legislator of the Year Award.
Frequent public safety power outages can have a devastating impact on older adults and those with health problems, and AARP California is advocating for measures to protect them.
Some 16 million PG&E customers could see their utility bills jump by an estimated 20 percent or more under rate hikes proposed by Pacific Gas & Electric. That would mean a yearly increase from 2023 to 2026.
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