Health & Wellbeing

Did you know that exercise can protect both your brain and your bones? You can learn the relationship of these two key players in your body and practice exercises to discover how you can influence them yourself, when you join us for the interactive webinar series, Let’s Get Moving! Exercise for Brain and bone Health. This four-part series begins Wednesday, May 15 and continues through June 5, 2024. Join us each week and you can discover how to prevent physical and mental decline with a proactive approach. Let’s get moving together!

Roughly two months after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the United States, many older residents in Central Texas are finding their access to food limited and their social isolation worsened.

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The Texas Senate took a pivotal step toward improving the quality of care in Texas nursing facilities on Wednesday by unanimously approving Senate Bill 932, which seeks to hold nursing home operators accountable for harming residents.

Write to Wellness is a reflective and creative writing-based program, started by Flood and Daly, that shares diverse writing practices grounded in current research on the benefits of expressive writing for wellness, engagement, and productivity.

A Four-Part Series to Optimize Brain Health

Rates of COVID-19 deaths and cases in nursing homes have declined dramatically in Texas and nationwide as the Omicron wave recedes. Still, COVID-19 remains a deadly issue for nursing home residents. AARP Texas urges legislators to focus on nursing home safety.

On a recent Saturday in April, AARP Virginia hosted its first Pickleball Social, designed for fun while promoting physical fitness and brain health.

Every day, thousands of Mississippians wake up hoping they’re not sick because they don't have health coverage. Elected officials from around the state can do something to fix this. Closing the health coverage gap will help create healthier families, workers and communities. The time to act is now. Tell elected officials to close the health coverage gap and be a champion for hard-working Mississippians. You can contact state legislators at this link: action.AARP.org/MSHealth

Tips for continuing to garden, even with restricted mobility.