AARP Oregon

My Fitness Center reopened over the summer and yet I haven’t returned. That’s strange, considering I’ve been an OCD work-out freak most of my adult life – even in my disabled and wheelchair recent years. Why the hesitation, I ask myself.

By Andrea Meyer, AARP Oregon Government Relations Director

To Mask or not To Mask?

AARP awards community grants to three Oregon organizations as part of record-breaking year for nationwide program.

Housing Crisis Affects Senior Homeowners and Renters Alike. Learn about a new technology-aided homesharing program now available in Oreogn.

It has been said that Lyndon Baines Johnson – LBJ - the thirty-sixth POTUS, gave monogrammed electric toothbrushes to White House staffers so they would be reminded of him the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night

AARP Oregon is excited to bring you several virtual concerts to enjoy right from home.

WASHINGTON— A new AARP survey, released in conjunction with Social Security’s 85th anniversary, confirms that Americans highly value Social Security, and even more so due to the pandemic. The vast majority of Americans – 93% of Republicans, 99% of Democrats, and 92% of Independents – see Social Security as an important government program, and 56% believe it is even more important for retirees in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter sent yesterday to President Trump, AARP asked him to explain his plan to replace Social Security funding.

Caregiving crises can erupt with a phone call. For me it happened on a glorious sunny morning in the summer of 2008 with a ring from my sister. Within hours of hearing that Mom’s caregiver needed to be fired, panic and fear enveloped me because we realized Mom would soon have to leave home.

According to NPR, "The coronavirus pandemic triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern American history, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, July 30, 2020.