Health & Wellbeing

AARP and other organizations will rally at the State House on Tuesday, May 13 to support quality, effective, and cost-efficient home and community-based services.

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The set of reforms includes creating a new fund to support career advancement for long-term care workers, requiring care facilities to submit disease outbreak response plans, and allowing qualified assisted living staff to provide basic health services.

Massachusetts residents can schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments at retail pharmacies, doctor’s offices and other locations. Here’s how to find an updated vaccine near you.

Ansara is among seven people who won an AARP Purpose Prize this year. The award is given to nonprofit founders 50 and older who see a problem and create impactful solutions. Ansara's Build Health International helps build high-quality health care infrastructure in underprivileged communities around the world.

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AARP is making a post-pandemic push to combat loneliness and social isolation by hosting a series of in-person events, including a trip to the New England Botanic Garden, ice cream socials and an outing to the Cambridge Jazz Festival. A 2023 advisory from the U.S. surgeon general declared increasing loneliness, isolation and lack of connection to be a public health crisis.

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For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.