The 2025 Colorado legislative session has concluded, and AARP Colorado’s nonpartisan advocacy efforts helped achieve several significant victories for older Coloradans. This year’s legislative advocacy focused on four key areas: financial security, housing, fraud prevention and health care. Additionally, AARP advocates worked to mitigate a budget shortfall’s impact on older Coloradans.
A new AARP survey, released in conjunction with Social Security’s 90th anniversary, confirms that Americans highly value Social Security, and even more so than five years ago. The vast majority of Americans – 95% of Republicans, 98% of Democrats, and 93% of Independents – consider Social Security vital to the financial security of all Americans, and 67% believe it is even more important for retirees than it was five years ago.
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.
Being a family caregiver requires a great deal of balance. From managing medications to coordinating appointments, family caregivers juggle many tasks every day.
Operation Paperback is a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania that collects gently used books nationwide and sends them to American troops deployed overseas.
On August 29, 2015 I was crowned Ms America International 2016. Some might think “and the winner is” were the words that changed my life. Yes, things have been different since then, but this isn’t about winning a crown, it’s about a winning mindset. What truly changed my life and put me on a path to self-rediscovery began a year earlier with four monumental words . . . “you are turning fifty”!