AARP Vermont

AARP Vermont will offer three virtual technology classes about streaming services and smartphones.

Complete Streets are streets designed for all modes of transportation, allowing people of all ages and abilities to walk, bike, use public transit and drive. It is an approach to planning, designing, building, operating, and maintaining streets that enables safe access for all people who need to use them, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders (Smart Growth America).

Winter Placemaking Projects Promote Livability for All Ages

Sophie Quest, of Burlington, has received AARP’s top volunteer award, the Andrus Award for Community Service.

Four AARP state offices in northern New England are partnering this month to co-sponsor the online program Living Histories: New England LGBTQ+ Voices from the Outwords Archive, hosted by the Outwords Archive (OUTWORDS) via Zoom on Friday, October 28 at noon Eastern. The event is free but registration is required.

The Vermont Retired Educators Association is seeking retired teachers and other school staff as new members.

A Sept. 22 walking tour of Burlington's South End will spotlight "Missing Middle Housing" examples and explore ways to encourage this form of residential development.

In 2020 AARP purchased and installed an outdoor fitness park in Burlington's New North End, and we are finally able to gather there to use it! Join us for an intro of the FitLot to show you how to use each station. Refreshments will be served!

Older Vermonters will now get a break on the skyrocketing costs of Rx drugs -- thanks in part to extensive AARP campaigns pressing Congress to address the issue. Read a letter from our CEO outlining the success.

AARP Vermont is teaming with the Vermont Lake Monsters to offer movie nights at the ballpark! From mid-August through September, we will host four family-friendly movie nights under the stars at Centennial Field.