With nearly 2.5 million members in Texas, AARP Texas strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to older Texans and their families, including health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment.
Preventing elder exploitation and fraud is on the AARP Texas legislative agenda as the advocacy team fights for measures in the Texas Legislature to deal with scams tied to cryptocurrency kiosks, residential solar, real estate deeds, gift cards, and more.
El primero de junio está cerca. Esto significa que ahora es el momento de prepararse para la temporada de huracanes de 2021. Cuando se forma un huracán en la zona costera de Texas, hay que tomar mucha importancia en la preparación.
Did you know that Asian Americans face different family caregiving challenges than other Americans? For these caregivers, there are barriers like language, traditions, and lack of resources that threaten to complicate their lives and the person they care for daily.
To help members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities navigate the complex role of caregiver, AARP in Houston will offer special events this month, including videos and a podcast.
AARP volunteers do everything from addressing state and federal legislators about issues of importance to the 50-plus population, to public speaking, to telephone town halls or behind-the-scenes organizing.
AARP Texas calls on legislators to sprint to action on consumer-focused utilities reforms so that avoidable power disruptions like the deadly winter storm blackouts never happen again.
According to Feeding Texas, the Lone Star State is the 5th highest state for senior food insecurity. What does that mean? Well, that means that 11% of Texas seniors run the risk of going hungry.
Un análisis reciente del Instituto de Política Pública de AARP revela que en 2019, alrededor de 1 de cada 5 latinos entre las edades de 50 a 64 años carecía de seguro médico. Si bien la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (Obamacare) implementada hace 11 años mejoró las disparidades raciales y étnicas asociadas con la capacidad de compra del seguro médico, esa tasa es casi tres veces mayor a la de los blancos no hispanos.