AARP Idaho

For decades, America’s seniors have paid the highest prices in the world for lifesaving medications while big drug companies padded their profits.

AARP Idaho is pleased to welcome Montpelier into the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. Other participants in Idaho are all cities including Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Malad, Cascade, Preston, and Oneida County.

AARP has awarded six Community Challenge grants for projects to help boost livability for all residents.

Learn how simple daily choices can be the key to a happier you from Human Performance Professor Dr. Howard Gauthier! 

This past August we celebrated the 88th birthday of Social Security. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law on Aug. 14, 1935. Last month I had the honor, along with other AARP volunteers from around the country, to meet in Washington D.C. for a bipartisan discussion with members of Congress about the future of Social Security.

AARP Idaho is holding a telephone town hall with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help people make decisions about Medicare coverage during the program’s annual open enrollment period.

Report Finds Systemic Gaps in Idaho in access to long-term care insurance, age-friendly health systems and LTSS worker wage competitiveness

Medicare can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be.

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We need Congressional action NOW: In the next 10 years, Social Security could be cut by as much as 20 percent. Congressman John Larson (D-CT) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have put ideas on the table to address the challenges Social Security faces now and in the future — and they've welcomed conversation about their ideas.