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OCT 9, 2025
Feeling overwhelmed by holiday caregiving? Nov 5, join a supportive, peer-led chat for planning tips, expectation resets, self-care ideas, and connection.
OCT 9, 2025
One of the greatest gifts caregivers can give themselves is permission to let go of the idea of a “perfect” holiday.
OCT 6, 2025
AARP is providing this overview to help you understand the proposal, so you can make an informed decision on how to vote.
OCT 6, 2025
Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner’s Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors have created a new tool to help you plan for Medicare Open Enrollment
Advocates are pressing state lawmakers to ensure Washingtonians living in long-term care facilities receive the same rights — including protection from wrongful discharges or evictions — whether they live in a nursing home, assisted living facility, adult family home or other type of institution.
By George Dicks, Geriatric Mental Health Practitioner with Harborview Mental Health and Addiction Service
Washington's "Caring for Caregivers" video podcast series features discussions with local experts, community leaders, and caregivers just like you on a range of topics to help you along your caregiving journey.
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After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2009 at the age of 57, Bill Meyer of Spokane went on the offensive using his love of the outdoors to help others. In 2016, he founded PasstoPass, a non-profit helping people with Parkinson’s to continue backpacking and hiking as a form of symptom mitigation. Starting with just one hike in 2016, the effort has grown to six regional chapters and a total of 7,549 cumulative miles hiked.
For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.
For the first time since AARP began publishing the Scorecard in 2011, more than half of Medicaid long-term care dollars nationwide for older adults and people with physical disabilities went to home- and community-based services instead of nursing homes and other institutions.
Underutilized government assistance benefits help households save money
Washington's "Caring for Caregivers" video podcast series features discussions with local experts, community leaders, and caregivers just like you on a range of topics to help you along your caregiving journey.
As we enter November, it is open enrollment for most insurance companies, the dedicated time each year when you can purchase and apply for health insurance for the following year.
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