The Idaho Department of Finance (IDOF) and Idaho Commission on Aging (ICOA) are announcing the creation of a joint Senior Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Working Group (SFFEP) comprised of financial and senior protection experts to provide recommendations for potential policies, frameworks, and solutions that can help better protect Idaho's senior community from financial crime.
Chuck Harwood from the Federal Trade Commission will provide updates on consumer protection issues, fraud prevention tips, current trends happening in Idaho as well as answer your specific questions.
Find free online and in-person local events designed with you in mind. Discover fun exercise classes, healthy cooking demos, helpful workshops, and more.
It’s a fact: the lives of America’s most vulnerable seniors, including many here in Idaho, are at risk because the unchecked nursing home industry chooses profits over providing enough staff to meet basic levels of care. For years, seniors in under-staffed nursing homes have been forced to sit in soiled underwear, suffer painful bed sores, miss life-saving medications, and worse. When the nursing home industry can center profits over people, nursing home residents pay the price – sometimes with their lives.
New Knowledge Adventures (NKA) is a lifelong continuing education program for older adults designed to offer exceptional learning, exploration and fellowship opportunities in a comfortable and non-competitive surrounding. It's a great way to learn something new and make friends along they way.
Retired longtime educator Irene Chavolla says she plans to rely on her language skills and years of experience dealing with families to fulfill her role as the newest member of AARP Idaho’s volunteer executive council.