Home & Family

It’s a CAREversation: a free family caregiving event!

AARP and the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission are guiding 14 communities through strategic planning to help residents live in their own homes as they age, rather than move into nursing homes.

It’s a CAREversation: a free family caregiving event!

The following information is being reprinted from New Hampshire Union Leader’s Senior News column (March 28, 2016).

AARP, Concord Hospital and Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association present Aging Well in the Capital Area: Tips and Tools. It’s a wellness series with topics ranging from finances to forgetfulness, presented by experts and professionals in the community.

Join us on Saturday, January 23 -- at the Puritan Back Room in Manchester, from 11:30 to 1:00 -- for We Need to Talk, a program developed to offer tips, guidance, and resources to family members who are planning sensitive conversations with their loved ones regarding safe driving.

AARP New Hampshire released a survey today that shows what’s important to Granite Staters 50-plus.

The following information is being reprinted -- with permission -- from New Hampshire Union Leader’s Senior News column (April 6, 2015).

We often joke about memory loss but what happens when it becomes more than a senior moment? What is the impact of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia – on the person, the caregiver, society, and the economy? And what can we do about it?

Across political parties, more than seven in ten registered voters age 40 and older say Congress should improve resources for family caregivers who help their parents, spouses, children with disabilities and other loved ones to live independently. This and other findings from a new poll underscore the need for the bipartisan, bicameral Assisting Caregivers Today (ACT) Caucus launched today by U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) and U.S. Representatives Diane Black (R-TN) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), co-chairs of the ACT Caucus. The Caucus will help bring greater attention to family caregiving and helping people live independently, educate Congress on these issues, and engage legislators on a bipartisan basis to help lead to solutions.