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On May 22, 2024, AARP Utah held an in-person Social Security forum at the Embassy Suites Hotel in South Jordan. We were joined by about 75 attendees as our experts discussed Social Security solvency.

When a group of older residents went to the Little Rock mayor for help after losing access to a swimming pool in 2017, little did they know the city was also about to lose its only senior center. That will soon be addressed.

El Comité, a group of about 10 volunteers, was formed in 2005, and its members, based in the Denver area, serve as AARP’s eyes and ears for Colorado’s Latino community. They help sharpen AARP’s focus on pressing issues and undertake projects that affect Latino residents, who made up 22.5 percent of the state’s population in 2022.

Jameah Kirby, a fifth grader at Metcalfe County Elementary School, in the southern part of the state, is this year’s winner of the Grandparent of the Year essay contest.

The first time Marilyn Turner saw an AARP booth at a Pride event in St. Louis, she cried.

From Grandma’s china to antique furniture, knowing what to keep and what to let go can be a challenge when downsizing.

The Healey-Driscoll Administration filed legislation to rename the Executive Office of Elder Affairs to the Executive Office of Aging & Independence

New AARP resource connects Michigan’s veterans to adapted housing grants from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Join Senior Planet/Older Adults Technology Training for a series of four virtual sessions on timely topics. You can join one to all of the sessions.

Fifty-five years ago on June 28, police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. In the 1960s, it was not unusual for police to raid establishments where the gay community gathered. However, this time, the patrons resisted. The police lost control of the situation and six days of riots ensued, marking the beginning of a movement. A year later, the community took to the streets for the first Pride March.