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AARP seeks 2025 Andrus Award for Community Service Nominees

MAY 1, 2025

Annual Award Recognizes Those Who Make a Powerful Difference in their Community

Get Active with AARP Colorado Virtual Fitness Classes

MAY 1, 2025

The free online classes range from yoga and low-impact cardio, to kickboxing and barre fusion. Plus, they cater to all ability levels.

More Than 1 Million Americans Now Enrolled in Auto-IRA Programs

APR 23, 2025

Colorado among leaders helping workers save for retirement

Relentless Gardener: Plant A Tree, Green Your Community

APR 18, 2025

I can give you 90 million reasons to plant a tree and not one reason not to unless you are not interested in caring for that tree during your lifetime. Trees grow slowly, heal slowly, and die slowly.

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DORA's "Take 5 for Seniors" Webinars

By Jeremiah Mora, DEC 18, 2015

Check out the following recorded webinars for free.

In My 11th Hour: "I Wish I'd Had More Courage"

By Angela Cortez, DEC 16, 2015

By Sandra Ford Walston, The Courage Expert

‘Networking’ Seniors to Cement NORCs

By Angela Cortez, DEC 16, 2015

By Kelly Pate Dwyer

The Caregiver’s Cairn: Holiday Blues Revisited

By Jeremiah Mora, DEC 16, 2015

Greetings one and all...

AARP Member Salutes Vets

By Angela Cortez, DEC 14, 2015

AARP member and master quilter Shirley Karlstrum has been very busy lately building commemorative quilt art as a salute to our Veterans, but to her it’s a labor of love.

AARP and Microsoft Offering Free Classes

By Allison Snyder, DEC 11, 2015

AARP Colorado and Microsoft are pleased to offer free Microsoft classes for AARP members. The classes will be offered at the Microsoft store at the Park Meadows Mall location only.

Mimi’s Caregiving Commandment Number Eight: Learn Every Bureaucracy

By Jeremiah Mora, DEC 8, 2015

The most frustrating part of taking care of my parents was navigating whatever bureaucracy of the moment confronted me. And there were many of them including insurance companies, Medicare, home health, caregiving agencies, emergency rooms, dementia units, respite care, and on and on.

Beware of Holiday Scams

By Angela Cortez, NOV 16, 2015

With the holiday giving season approaching, a new survey from the AARP Fraud Watch Network found that 70 percent of consumers failed a quiz about how to stay safe from common holiday scams, and many are regularly engaging in risky behaviors which could leave them at risk of being victimized by con artists.