Open enrollment for Medicare begins on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Unfortunately, this means scammers will be more likely to take advantage of those trying to sign up.

AARP Virginia will host a candidate forum for House District 41, providing an opportunity for residents to hear from the candidates.

Scams and fraud can impact anyone, and AARP is working to help you fight against it. They released three important tips to help you prevent scams and fraud, for both you and your loved ones.

Concerts are expensive, so you’re probably going to shop around online for deals. However, you need to be cautious of scams. AARP is assisting us, and you in ensuring that you can stay safe when concert season comes around.

Here are three tips to remember when coming across social media shopping scams.

The holiday season can intensify feelings of grief for those who have lost loved ones, but strategies like embracing new traditions, seeking support, and honoring memories can help manage the pain.

A plan to create an artistic design on a Roanoke Street to enhance bicycle and pedestrian safety was delayed by Hurricane Helene.

If you’re a caregiver, going on vacation with the person you care for can help improve their quality of life, according to a recent study by AARP called Caregiving and Travel 2024.

About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who aren't yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income.

Imagine struggling to pay for life-saving prescriptions. That’s what one Roanoke man is experiencing. He and others are asking Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to sign a bill that’d make medications more affordable in the Commonwealth.

Sheryl Lee Ralph is living a career dream: The “Abbott Elementary” star won her first Emmy last year and lends her powerful vocals as a Super Bowl pregame performer this weekend.

As more nurses leave their jobs in hospitals and health-care centers, foundations are pouring millions of dollars into efforts to ensure that more stay in the profession and get more out of the job than just the applause and pats on the back they got during the bleakest days of the pandemic.

Tyler Perry will receive an honorary AARP award for uplifting communities and helping people “overcome various obstacles” through his foundation.

For more than 55 years, Medicare has followed a simple policy with covered benefits the same, no matter if you’re rich, poor, or in-between.

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Nursing home residents and staff are seeing an increase in coronavirus cases in Virginia as staffing shortages increase, according to an AARP analysis.

While the number of new COVID-19 deaths and cases have fallen in Virginia nursing homes, an AARP analysis revealed that there are still some major problems that need to be addressed. The AARP Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard, which analyzes federally reported data in four-week intervals dating back to June 2020, found that resident deaths in nursing homes were more than a third lower in the four weeks ending on Feb. 14 in comparison to the prior period. At the same time, new infections and deaths in nursing homes are still more than twice as high as they were in the summer of 2020, as Virginia’s nursing home COVID-19 death rate is the 2nd highest in the nation. “While we are encouraged by the downward trend in nursing home deaths, we continue to see disgracefully high numbers of cases and deaths in Virginia’s nursing homes and long-term care facilities compared to the rest of the country,” said AARP Virginia State Director Jim Dau. In order to keep nursing homes safe, AARP Virginia is urging state lawmakers to:

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Andra Day in "The United States vs Billie Holiday." (Takashi Seida/Paramount Pictures via AP)“The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” “Minari,” “Da 5 Bloods” and “One Night in Miami” are among the films AARP is honoring at its annual Movies for Grownups Awards, the nonprofit organization said Thursday. Director Lee Daniels’ “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” starring Andra Day as the jazz singer, was named best picture, while the Korean American family drama “Minari” got best intergenerational film. “We focus on films made by and for grownups,” said Tim Appelo, the film and television critic for AARP. Catherine O’Hara took best actress for “Schitt’s Creek,” Mark Ruffalo got best actor for “I Know This Much is True” and “This Is Us” was named best series.

In every recession since the 1970s, older workers had persistently lower unemployment rates than midcareer workers — partly because of seniority benefits. But in the current recession, older workers experienced higher unemployment rates than midcareer workers in each month since the onset of the pandemic. The older workers’ unemployment rates from April through September were 1.1 percentage points higher than mid-career workers — at 9.7% versus 8.6%. “The higher rate of unemployment for older workers might be because this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for employers to shed older workers and not fear investigation by the labor department," Ghilarducci said. The researchers who conducted the new study recommended that Congress increase and extend unemployment benefits for older workers, discourage withdrawals from retirement accounts, lower Medicare eligibility to 50 and create a federal Older Workers Bureau to promote the welfare of older workers.

LOS ANGELES – Glenn Close will receive an honorary AARP award for her work with a charity that brings awareness to mental illness. AARP announced Tuesday that Close will be the first to receive an honorary Purpose Prize Award during a virtual ceremony on Dec. 3. Five individuals will awarded the AARP Purpose Prize, which honors people ages 50 and older who “tap into the power of life." Each prize winner will receive a $50,000 award for their organization. AARP said 10 Purpose Prize fellows will also be honored.

This is lower than the drug price increases observed in previous years, but it's a tepid improvement. Republicans have long opposed allowing the government to negotiate drug prices. Trump, who campaigned on a promise to lower drug prices, has said in the past that drug companies were "getting away with murder." During Azar's tenure with Lilly, the company was accused of routinely increasing drug prices. 'This is simply unsustainable'AARP's Purvis noted that increasing drug prices don't just impact the people who take them.

BEDFORD, Va. - Drive through the town of Bedford and there's no doubt you'll see plenty of people walking to get downtown. Town leaders say the money will help put new bike racks downtown and benches and trash cans along The Loop, a path walkers take around the old Bedford Middle School. Town leaders also want to see cyclists riding in downtown. We don't have bike lanes downtown, so it's going to be helping them feel more safe," Zirkle said. Inspired by bike racks in Lynchburg and other cities across the country, town leaders say this will be a community project and all ideas are needed because they've got a short deadline.