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Here are three things you can do to safeguard your loved one from financial exploitation.

AARP Urges Legislators to Focus on Nursing Home Safety

If there is one thing everyone should understand, it’s that “scammers” are career criminals skilled at the art of manipulation and no one is immune.

One third of U.S. adults say they have been targeted by scams seeking payment by gift card, according to a report by the AARP Fraud Watch Network. And nearly a quarter of consumers have given or received gift cards that had no funds on them. 

Volunteers from across Virginia thanked at virtual ceremony

Free Resources Identify Top Scams Facing Virginia’s Military Community and Ways to Fight Back

AARP presents 103,486 petitions from Virginians who need lower drug prices.

We have a team of volunteer reporters who cover events and write feature articles to tell the AARP story in Virginia. We have a lot going on, and we need more volunteer reporters to cover our events.

Here in Virginia, staff cases spiked dramatically from a rate of 1.23 per 100 residents in December to 18.6 in January, the highest since the pandemic began. Resident cases increased nearly 10-fold from a rate of 1.49 to 14.4 per 100 residents during this same period, also the highest since the pandemic began. Nursing home resident deaths from COVID-19 more than doubled from a rate of .15 in December to .37 per 100 residents in January.

Six lawmakers to decide fate of nursing home staffing bills