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12th Annual Celebration to Recognize Impact on Tribes, Family and Community

This year, Oklahoma lawmakers are expected to consider measures that would improve protections for those living in assisted living communities, lower prescription drug costs and help ensure that residents don’t become victims of fraud or abuse.

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AARP donated $5,000 to Oklahoma State University for a program that allows rural residents to check out internet hot spots from public libraries.

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, especially the AARP Oklahoma volunteers who advance the mission of AARP. Throughout communities across Oklahoma, AARP volunteers embrace the philosophy that it their responsibility is “To Serve, Not to Be Served”. We honor their service to community, our state and our country.

The AARP Oklahoma Nursing Home CARE Plan became law on November 1, 2019.

Rita Walker, Tulsa, Okla., received the 2019 AARP Oklahoma Andrus Award for Community Service at the AARP Oklahoma Volunteer Celebration and Andrus Award luncheon in Oklahoma City on November 7, 2019. Walker was one of six Andrus Award nominees recognized at the AARP Oklahoma Volunteer Celebration and Andrus Award luncheon in Oklahoma City.

In Oklahoma approximately 530,000 family caregivers provided an estimated 440 million hours of care — worth a staggering $5.8 billion — to their parents, spouses, partners, and friends in 2017, according to state data available in the latest report of AARP's Valuing the Invaluable series. The complexity of family caregiving increases as medical and nursing tasks continue to enter the home, and family demographics change amidst an aging population.

A series of state laws aimed at protecting patients and improving the quality of care in nursing homes took effect on Nov. 1.