Advocacy

Four hearings will be held in Wheeling, Princeton, Huntington, Charleston

The retirement savings program could help curb Pennsylvania’s retirement crisis.

According to World Health Organization estimates, 1 in 6 people over the age of 60 suffers from some type of abuse. More needs to be done in order to bring elder abuse into the spotlight, and that is why the United Nations will call upon all nations to refer to June 15 as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day [WEAAD].

Paul Greenwood is a retired San Diego Deputy District Attorney where he headed up the Elder Abuse Prosecution Unit for 22 years. He has prosecuted over 750 felony cases of physical, sexual, emotional and financial elder abuse. Paul now spends much of his post-retirement time consulting on elder abuse cases and providing trainings to law enforcement and Adult Protective Services agencies across the country and internationally. He is also a criminal justice board member of National Adult Protective Services Association.

Advocates for Nursing Home Residents Praise Passage of Bill Requiring Long Term Care Ombudsman Program to Report Visits, Kinds & Patterns of Complaints

Concord Television's Senior Speak NH June 2022 edition, hosted by AARP NH volunteer Karen Ulmer Dorsch, features Concord's Assistant City Planner Beth Fenstermacher who will speak about how to navigate the 84 miles of the city's off-road trails.

Americans 50+ are our nation's most powerful voters - and they will be the deciders in the 2022 elections. Voters across the country will be faced with new voting rules and may have to cast their ballots in a different polling place than they have before.

Financial abuse is estimated to have cost older Americans at least $3 billion annually, according to the FBI.

Changes to the new WA Cares Fund also include allowing employees who live out of state and certain other groups to apply for exemptions. And the program, which was initially set to begin this year, will launch in mid-2023.

A grace period that protected consumers from having municipal electricity, water or waste utility services cut off expired March 15.