AARP Colorado

Blog by Jane Barton

AARP is informing our Western Slope members, as well as all 50-plus residents, about some special events at the Fruita Community Center, 324 N. Coulson St. in Fruita.

Colorado has a rich history of Chicano activism during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and AARP Colorado, along with the History Colorado Museum and Regis University, are keeping that history alive through oral-history recordings, digital collections and stationary exhibits and an event to kick off a celebration of those significant contributions.

AARP Colorado was a proud sponsor of KUVO’s Eighth Annual signature event, Live at the Vineyards, last month at the Balistreri Vineyards, just north of downtown Denver.

Marissa Larma works as the multicultural outreach coordinator for the Alzheimer's Association of Colorado.

Like most laws, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the health care law, is complex. Who could forget all the talk about this over 900-page document? You don’t need to read the entire law, but you do need to understand what the changes in the law mean to you. How the law works for you is based on who you are, where you live, and what your health status and health coverage is.

In the Colorado AARP office where Suzanne volunteers, she is privileged to work with Julie, cat rescuer and advocate extraordinaire. During Suzanne’s most recent volunteer day, Julie was considering adopting a 16 year old cat from an animal shelter and wanted to know if her two much younger resident cats would be more likely to accept an elderly female feline compared to a younger one.

John Meredith of Colorado Springs was recently named Colorado AARP Foundation Tax-Aide State Coordinator. He will oversee the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide sites and more than 300 volunteers, who prepare tax returns free of charge each year for low- to moderate-income families.

Join AARP Colorado's advocacy team this month and learn more about state and federal issues impacting AARP members, as well as the state as a whole.

You’ve Earned a Say about the future of Medicare and Social Security. But too many politicians in Washington aren’t listening.