Pete Cartwright, honored as a recipient of the Wish of a Lifetime from AARP, had a remarkable experience when he threw his first pitch at an Astros game.
A non-practicing physician with a passion for health education and community service, AARP Pennsylvania volunteer Myra Piña brings a global perspective and multilingual skills to her work.
This August we’re focusing the Granite State’s 168,000 family caregivers. Join us August 27 for one of our FREE ice cream events for resources and conversation about how to support family caregivers on their caregiving journey! And, the free cone is on us!
The AARP Pickleball Clinic Tour came to Barney Park in Helena, Montana last August. We were excited to offer Helenans a chance to learn and to play this popular sport! The clinic consisted of an on-court guided session with licensed instructors and focused on warm up, basic technique, skills building, and game play for players of all levels. Afterward, participants had the chance to put into practice what they just learned with an open-play session guided by the professionals.
There are 126,109 people in Wyoming counting on the Social Security they’ve earned to be there when they need it. Seventy-eight percent of those beneficiaries in Wyoming are retired workers with 12% disabled workers, and 7.4% receiving spousal or survivor benefits. Laramie County has the state’s highest number of beneficiaries at 20,655, followed by Natrona (16,835), Park (8,820), and Sheridan (8,285) Counties.
One of the oldest scams around involves a criminal getting hold of one of your checks and forging the payee and the amount. Usually this is done by “washing” the check with chemicals to remove the real information you have written on it. Today, with access to new technologies, criminals are “cooking” checks by creating fake versions of real checks using computer programs. These “cooked” checks can be manipulated digitally and either printed or deposited electronically, saving the crook a lot of mess and hassle.
Tennessee is often recognized as the Volunteer State, but there’s much more history there than meets the eye. Tennessee is the home of many impactful, change-making people, institutions, and more especially within the African American community.
The Fresh Eats Cooking Series is in collaboration with Phipps’ Culinary Arts education program. Chef Emily Larsen will lead each demo-style class that will expand your culinary skills as she demonstrates how to use familiar favorites from the garden in bold new ways. The series will include menus and downloadable ingredient lists so you can prepare your entrée along with Chef Larsen or simply watch her techniques and create your meal at another time.
The Alaska Legislature can change the landscape on retirement readiness in our state by passing Alaska Work and Save legislation (SB 135). Alaska Work and Save will provide an easy, low-cost retirement savings option to help small businesses give employees a way to save and take control of their future.
A proposal submitted by the Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired to create signage for three garden spaces and four flowerpots in the Council’s sensory garden at 754 Williamson St., Madison, has been selected to receive this month’s AARP Wisconsin “Small Dollar, Big Impact” grant.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) recently introduced the Connecting Caregivers to Medicare Act, bipartisan legislation to increase outreach and education to Medicare beneficiaries and simplify access to information for family caregivers.
Big Pharma is trying to protect their profits by destroying our state’s best tool to lower drug costs – the Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB).