AARP Colorado

By Kelly Pate Dwyer

Greetings one and all...

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 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.

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.

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.

Greetings one and all...

Article by Buffy Gilfoil

-Deadline for nominations is January 11, 2016-

One lonely night I was in my hotel room in Chicago where I was staying while supervising the recovery of my ninety-year old dad who had just returned from the intensive care unit where he had been fighting complications from an appendicitis attack. It was another sleepless night midway between a two-week stint of being away from my home and my family in Denver.