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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.
JUL 22, 2025
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.
JUN 26, 2025
AARP Colorado is excited to announce that the state office is now accepting applications to join its Executive Council, a volunteer leadership role and experience.
JUN 23, 2025
Most of us consider perennials when we think of plants that are great pollinators. Several annuals make great pollinator plants. There is a wide selection in both color and variety to satisfy almost any gardener. Some reseed themselves.
Colorado received over $54 million to assist low income families. Last season, LIHEAP helped around 77,500 low-income households in Colorado alone.
The AARP Livability IndexTM platform is the most comprehensive, web-based tool of its kind that scores every neighborhood and community in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the services and amenities that affect people’s lives the most as they age.
Wish of a Lifetime, an AARP charitable affiliate, has fulfilled more than 2,500 wishes for adults 65 and older. The wishes are wide reaching, from introducing a grandparent to a grandchild they had only recently learned existed to helping a woman go to clown college.
AARP strongly supports new bipartisan legislation, the Alleviating Barriers for Caregivers Act, which would make it easier for family caregivers to navigate key financial and health care programs.
Dr. Irene Martinez Jordan selected as recipient of 2023 Andrus Award for Community Service, which honors the legacy of AARP founder Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus.
Colorado remains in the midst of a housing crisis that impacts all of us.
Recognize, Refuse, Report.
Report Finds Systemic Gaps in Nursing Homes, Home and Community Based-Care, and Support for Family Caregivers.
AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people to choose how they live as they age. The 2023 legislative session proved to be another productive and successful year for Colorado advocacy
efforts.
A recent AARP survey found that the majority of older adults have not taken steps to ensure they receive information during a disaster and are more likely to be unprepared if a disaster strikes.
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