Health & Wellbeing

While you wait for the warmer days to arrive, why not jump-start your spring fitness routine indoors with simple chair exercises? Not only can you stay active, but you can also improve your strength, flexibility, and mood—all from the comfort of your home.

Music has an incredible power to uplift our spirits, spark memories, and even transform the way our brains function. But how exactly does music impact our brain?

Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or new to the mat, here are seven ways yoga can enhance your mental health and build resilience. AARP PA's Yoga and Mindfulness classes begin February 6.

Pennsylvania residents can schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments at retail pharmacies, doctor’s offices and other locations. Here’s how to find an updated vaccine near you.

For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.

The Pennsylvania Department of Aging and Area Agencies on Aging are developing a 10-year Master Plan for Older Adults, hoping to guide policymakers on ways to ensure older Pennsylvanians and those with disabilities get the support they need. Exorbitant rents, transportation troubles and a shortage of home care workers are among the issues the plan will address.

In March 2020, the federal government put special coronavirus rules in place that helped hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians maintain stable health insurance and avoid food insecurity during the pandemic. However, the federal government recently ended some of these special rules that is now rolling back two pandemic-era federal policies.

Introduced last summer, the Yoga and Mindfulness series was so popular that it continues in 2023 as part of a lineup of healthy living programs that AARP Pennsylvania offers to keep people over 50 moving.

Milly Laible, 70, sits in Bethlehem, smiling into a computer screen and getting her audience moving. Some of them are thousands of miles away. One woman has even exercised along with Milly from her apartment in Shanghai.

Pennsylvania leadership provides information on COVID-19 impact on nursing homes