Sedgwick County and the city of Thornton are the newest Colorado members of the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. They join 20 other Colorado counties or localities that are also members, including places like Carbondale. The city’s age-friendly efforts have included repairing sidewalks and placing benches around the city to provide rest stops for walkers.
As Americans continue to exit the workforce in unprecedented numbers, decisions as to how and when to elect Social Security retirement benefits may be the determining factor in the success or failure of millions of retirement plans.
AARP Colorado is a sponsor of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies conference in Denver April 6-9 to coincide with the Cesar Chavez celebration. For more details about the conference, visit.
The Boulder County Latino History Project, a study sponsored in-part by AARP Colorado, recently released Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980, a work of nonfiction by Marjorie K. McIntosh.
The University of Colorado Boulder is hosting a new exhibit from now through the end of the year. Moments in the History of Mexicans in the Southwest United States is being held in the Norlin Library, underground west wing, on the Boulder campus, 500 Manhattan Dr., Boulder, CO 80303.
You want to make the most of your future. That's why AARP is providing free, unbiased information that will help you make smart financial decisions so you can live independently as you age. Join us for the AARP Free Financial Resilience Seminar on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at the Grand Junction Goodwill, to learn about saving, planning, and turning your goals and dreams into real possibilities.
My husband’s mother was “losing it.” She started a fire in her apartment after she forgot to turn off a burner on her stove. She was demanding when a family member would take her grocery shopping and she would insist on using her bundle of coupons for various items, a process that would often take as long as two hours. Her mood was never good. There were several panic trips to the emergency room in the middle of the night.