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How One Community Supports Its Hidden Heroes, Family Caregivers
The view on the drive into Sheridan, Wyo. As I drove from Billings, Mont., to Sheridan, Wyo., I saw a sign for “Buffalo 36 miles.” Then it occurred to me that something felt strangely familiar. I grew...
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Older Adults and People With Disabilities Want Choice and Control
We all like to have choices. Being able to decide where we live and work, what we eat and how we spend our leisure time all enhance life satisfaction. Having a disability doesn’t diminish the desire...
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Technology’s Brave New World: Crossing the Digital Divide
Charlotte Whittaker – AARP Kentucky Volunteer It’s a Brave New World and I want to be a part of it – online. Growing up in rural west Kentucky, I never imagined having the world at my fingertips. But,...
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Texas Study: Walkable Communities Work!
An aerial map of Mueller, a walkable, transit-oriented development five miles from downtown Austin, Texas It may seem a bit of a disconnect, but Texas, an expansive state connected by hundreds and...
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Be Generous, but Give What You Can Afford
African Americans/blacks have a history of giving. More than two-thirds give to churches and organized charities. We also give to family members who need help paying bills, college students who need...
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AARP Member Leads Effort to Stop Neighbor's Eviction
Sometimes it takes a village to help a neighbor, and retiree Robert Bennett is mighty grateful for folks in his town on the banks of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Robert Bennett’s name wasn’t included on...
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9 Life Lessons From My 90-Year-OId Friend
He’s 90. I’m 32. We’re friends. I met Arthur six years ago, thanks to an online ad. A community-based nonprofit called DOROT — meaning “generations” in Hebrew — was looking for volunteers to visit...
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Aging in Thailand: Takeaways From a Year Abroad
Sunday at the races, together. They clutched their binoculars and scribbled notes in their programs. They paced behind the teller windows and snagged seats just before post time. Some spent the day on...
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State Legislator Stands Up for Family Caregivers While Battling Cancer
Sen. Debbie Smith and Barry Gold of AARP Nevada Let me start by saying, thank you State Sen. Debbie Smith (Nev.) for your leadership, courage and determination to fight for family caregivers and the...
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Weekend: Richard Gere, Homeless; Angie Dickinson, Hot
In theaters, one of our biggest stars plays a homeless man…at home, a fantasy with an intriguing twist on the notion of growing older. Designates a Movies for Grownups Editor’s Choice Time Out of...
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Why We Should Rise to the Pope’s Challenge
Pope Francis and President Obama on the South Lawn of the White House En español | Today I was honored to attend the White House arrival ceremony for Pope Francis. Along with the president and the...
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Surviving an Adult Child’s Drug Addiction
One morning last June, Colorado mom Patricia Byrne went online to read her Canton, Mass., hometown newspaper. What she read changed her life: an obituary for a 26-year-old young man who was a childhood...
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How to Fight Food Waste, Train Cooks, Feed Seniors … and Do It Again
An L.A. Kitchen graduation.Shortly after midnight on New Years Eve, the first baby boomer turned 70. Everyday, 10,000 more men and women follow, and this will go on for years to come. There are many...
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Is Your Community the Right Fit?
Streets that accommodate all users are a key aspect of livable communities. You like where you live. Your community is the perfect fit, you say. Yet will it be the right fit 10, 20, or 30 years from...
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Disrupting Housing: Younger Generations Leading the Way to Develop a Model...
Every person, regardless of age, can participate in creating a livable community. According to a newly published report from Generations United and the Eisner Foundation, opportunities that bring...
View Article2017 AARP Purpose Prize™ winners announced
AARP recently announced the five winners of the AARP Purpose Prize™. The AARP Purpose Prize™ recognizes outstanding work by people age 50 and over that is focused on advancing social good. The winners...
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Aging in Thailand: Takeaways From a Year Abroad
Sunday at the races, together. They clutched their binoculars and scribbled notes in their programs. They paced behind the teller windows and snagged seats just before post time. Some spent the day on...
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State Legislator Stands Up for Family Caregivers While Battling Cancer
Sen. Debbie Smith and Barry Gold of AARP Nevada Let me start by saying, thank you State Sen. Debbie Smith (Nev.) for your leadership, courage and determination to fight for family caregivers and the...
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Weekend: Richard Gere, Homeless; Angie Dickinson, Hot
In theaters, one of our biggest stars plays a homeless man…at home, a fantasy with an intriguing twist on the notion of growing older. Designates a Movies for Grownups Editor’s Choice Time Out of...
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Why We Should Rise to the Pope’s Challenge
Pope Francis and President Obama on the South Lawn of the White House En español | Today I was honored to attend the White House arrival ceremony for Pope Francis. Along with the president and the...
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