Community

Nine entities across the Tar Heel State received AARP Community Challenge grants in 2024 for quick-action projects to help make communities more livable.

ASHEVILLE — “We are still here”, Cherokee elder Nancy Pheasant, told the attentive audience. “Despite media images and years of erasing us and our history, we have survived.”

No matter where you are in the caregiver journey, these local agencies and organizations can help make the process easier

North Carolina officials will issue a major blueprint this month that maps out how state agencies should strive to meet the needs of the state’s growing older population.

2023 AARP Inspiration Awards

CHARLOTTE -- Joetta Glover of Charlotte was presented with the AARP Andrus Award for Community Service at a special ceremony at the Mint Museum on May 2. The award named after AARP founder Ethel Percy Andrus, is presented every year to the AARP volunteer in each state who is making the most impact in the lives of older adults and their families.

ASHEVILLE -- Studies have shown that the health benefits of volunteering include lower blood pressure, a boost in happiness, improved mental wellbeing and much more. Volunteering is not only good for our health, but also a solid way to build community, fellowship, and friendship.

How did the Asheville area become the vibrant, welcoming, and diverse place that we know today? Beginning February 21, AARP in the NC Mountain Region is sponsoring a series of monthly evening lectures, This Is Home: Western North Carolina, Past and Present, to explore the key historical, cultural, and ecological forces that have shaped our region and its people. The series is curated and presented by Swannanoa Valley Museum in Black Mountain, NC.

The series of five weekly online bridge lessons for beginners will be taught by Larry Cohen, winner of 25 national bridge championships.

Typical holiday parties feature lots of talk, laughter, food and drinks in abundance. For AARP volunteers in North Carolina’s Mountain Region, who actively enable people to choose how they wish to live as they age, this year's annual holiday party was very different, but every bit as memorable.