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Honoka’a residents Miles Okumura and Lynn Higashi have been selected by AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and older, to receive the 2024 AARP Hawai`iAndrus Award for Community Service, the Association’s most prestigious and visible state volunteer award for community service.
The AARP Foundation is recruiting friendly and service-oriented people throughout Hawai`i to join its Tax-Aide volunteer team. Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest free, volunteer-based tax assistance and preparation program. During the 2024 tax season, almost 28,000 volunteers served over 1.7 million taxpayers. Tax-Aide participants saved more than $1.3 billion in refunds and credits.
As it advocates for a paid family-leave bill, AARP Hawai‘i is looking for personal stories about the challenges unpaid caregivers face.
Savings Possible Thanks to the Prescription Drug Law Championed by AARP
Get information about resources and services to help you age successfully on Maui at a free AARP Hawai`i Aging in Place Workshops on Saturday morning, Aug. 24 at the Kaunoa Senior Center, 401 Alakapa Place, in Paia from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Find upcoming election dates, registration deadlines and voting options in Hawai‘ii, such as voting by mail, early voting or voting with a disability.
There’s only two weeks left to nominate an outstanding individual for AARP’s most prestigious volunteer award. The deadline for the Andrus Award is September 1, 2024. AARP Hawai`i will donate $1,000 to the charity of the winner’s choice in their name.
Kupuna can learn to empower themselves with technology
AARP Hawai`i announced the awarding of 2024 Community Challenge grants totaling nearly $62,000 to four Hawai`i organizations. Grantees will implement quick-action projects that help communities become more livable by improving public places; digital connections; preparing for disasters and improving infrastructure to feed Hawaii’s hungry families.
Sherlyn Freeman could never be sure her dad would remember to turn off the lights before bed or that he wouldn’t stumble in the dark trying to reach them in the middle of the night. At 80, he exhausted himself just getting downstairs to answer the doorbell.
New AARP resource connects Hawai`i’s veterans to adapted housing grants from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Are you a caregiver? This is where we can help. Join us for a free webinar where we'll explore how working closely with your family doctor can help make the caregiving journey better for you and your loved ones.
On the ballot Voters will decide Saturday, Aug. 10, which candidates for U.S. Senate and House, state legislature, and some county and city offices advance to the Nov. 5 election.
AARP encourages community leaders to prepare their neighbors and neighborhoods in advance of a disaster.
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