AARP North Carolina

By Mary Bethel, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP North Carolina

How is Guilford County responding to the needs of the uninsured? A partnership between Carter Behavioral Health and the Guilford County Department of Public Health has been helping limited-income residents of the county access the health care they need. This week on Real Life Radio, meet Ron Carter, COO of Carter's Circle of Life Health Center in Greensboro and learn more about the wide range of health services they are offering residents of the county.

Posted on 06/19/2014 by Sid Kirchheimer |AARP Blog Author

"What we do for one, we do for all," were the words of AARP's founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus. AARP is inclusive in its policy positions and advocacy programs and promotes fair taxes, health care, employment, long-term care and retirement income for the LGBT community. Learn more what AARP can do for you.

Join us this week when “Real Life” explores family caregiving, the “Race for the Cure,” and an update on home and community-based care funding in North Carolina.

This week's Real Life Radio focuses on real people and how proposed state budget cuts would devastate family caregivers, the aged, people with disabilities and the blind. Learn more about the Senate's harmful budget proposal how you can stand up by contacting your elected leaders.

RALEIGH -- Hundreds of advocates and people served by long-term care support services urged their North Carolina elected leaders to reject harmful budget cuts to programs that help older adults and persons with disabilities and family caregivers.

Have you received your new AARP membership card in the mail? With AARP there are literally hundreds of ways to save. Learn more about AARP benefits and get a little preview of the exciting things to come with AARP Vice President of Member Services Steve Cone.

RALEIGH -- AARP North Carolina has serious concerns about the state Senate budget proposal that reduces funding for key services that help the needy, support older adults who want to stay in their homes as well as support their family caregivers . A proposed $969,549 reduction* from the Home and Community Care Block Grant will result in cuts to services that already have waiting lists of over 16,000 people for services including home-delivered meals and in home aide.

AARP has published a 2014 North Carolina Family Caregiving Guide ( 222086_NCguide_Screen) that will assist the estimated 1.7 million family caregivers in the state when they are seeking information and resources to help them take care of individuals who need assistance.