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SEP 16, 2025
Michigan isn't just known for its Great Lakes and charming small towns. The state is brimming with eerie legends and haunted hotspots that attract thrill-seekers from all over the state. Did you know some of Michigan's most popular attractions have a spine-chilling history? If you're brave enough, here's your guide to some of Michigan's most haunted locations.
SEP 16, 2025
No matter where you are in the caregiver journey, these contacts and resources will make the process easier
SEP 15, 2025
Who says the best years are behind us? At AARP Michigan, we know they’re happening right now—and they’re meant to be fun! From dance parties and cooking demos to museum trips, exercise classes and volunteer adventures, we’re all about turning ordinary days into something extraordinary.
SEP 1, 2025
AARP Michigan is working on the “Menopause: It’s a Movement!” campaign, led by the Michigan Women’s Commission. Since March, women from across the state have attended panels in which menopause experts seek to help them better advocate for their midlife health. Their stories — and potential policy changes — will be included in a March 2026 report detailing possible next steps.
AARP will testify in the House Energy and Technology Committee today in opposition to House Bill 5184, which deregulates the retail energy markets in Michigan.
From Gongwer News Service
AARP and the U.S. Small Business Administration will team up again this year to improve the chances for success of “encore entrepreneurs” – people 50 and older who are starting a business – at free workshops in Jackson, Traverse City, Grand Rapids and Lansing during April.
From Detroit Free Press
The Michigan House voted to pass a bill on Tuesday that would allow phone companies to eliminate landline telephone service with only 90 days' notice starting in 2017.
The best story I ever heard about Michigan State University Extension was about its very beginning, a hundred years ago, when Extension agents travelled the countryside getting farmers to adopt electricity. Who knew that’d be a tough sell? Farmers back then did, of course, but imagine how their lives, their descendants’ lives, our dinner plates and our country have since been transformed by that simple adoption.
From Gonger News Service Community Health Director James Haveman told a House subcommittee on Wednesday that he hoped to be able to announce by mid-March when individuals could apply for Medicaid coverage under expanded eligibility requirements enacted by the Legislature in 2013.
AARP Michigan advocates on policy issues that matter the most to Michigan residents age 50 and over and their families.
WASHINGTON, DC—AARP Executive Vice President Nancy A. LeaMond released the following statement in reaction to reports that the Social Security benefit cut called Chained CPI would not be in President Obama’s FY2015 budget proposal:
Amy Goyer, AARP caregiving expert, will share the five steps you can take to create a caregiving plan on the AARP Live! TV show on Thursday Feb. 20.
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