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AARP Colorado

Keeping Coloradans informed, engaged and active
SEP 1, 2025
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.
AUG 26, 2025
What Plants Attract Nighttime Pollinators?
AUG 25, 2025
Healthy living and making new friends are on AARP Colorado’s agenda with a new Walk & Connect event series late this fall and early winter.
AUG 11, 2025
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.
In our later years, many of us begin simplifying our lives; getting rid of things we don’t use or need any more and scaling back our possessions including smaller houses, smaller cars, maybe even smaller pets. Downsizing can make things easier for us in many ways, but there are certain items that it is better not to reduce in size. One of those, new research tells us, is your cat’s litter box. There is a temptation to go to a smaller litter box when we move to a smaller home, but don’t do it!
Blog by Jane Barton
Over strong opposition from AARP, the Colorado Legislature passed sweeping changes as to how phone companies can do business in 2014 and beyond. These new laws — called “telecom deregulation” — may change the type of phone service available to you, how much you pay for the service, and whether you can get help from the state if you have a serious problem. Here’s what you need to know:
AARP maintains a proud 28-year history of non-partisan voter engagement, providing voters with information on where the candidates stand on issues important to our members and their families, so they can make their own decisions on Election Day.
AARP is encouraging voters to consider working as election judges in Denver, Pueblo, Larimer and Mesa counties, as well as other counties across the state.
To be eligible to vote in Colorado, you must be:
AARP Colorado is proud to sponsor upcoming debates in the most hotly-contested races of candidates in Congressional District 6, U.S. Senate and the Governor’s races. AARP is dedicated to help bring awareness to the fall election season.
Join AARP Colorado and History Colorado for “Race: Are We So Different?”
Is it time to start the process of finding that new career path that will bring you fulfillment, income, and reward? Are you stuck in a situation that has become less than rewarding? Are you at a stage in your life where you are more interested in meaningful time spent rather than just punching a meaningless clock? Have you been laid off or have you retired from your lifelong career and are now looking for a new adventure?
Many of us rely on medications to live better lives as we age. Unfortunately, scammers are aware of this and sell replicas of many types of drugs online. Fake drugs are sold at a steep discount via the Internet, but they often contain the wrong medication and dangerous ingredients.
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