AARP

"By the time I wake up, I'll have an email from AARP asking me to call President Obama and tell him to protect Medicare, " he quipped.

'One of the biggest challenges in retirement is really staying engaged, ' says Tom Nelson, chief operating officer of AARP in Washington.

The AARP study finds that family members spend an average 20 hours a week providing care.

Today President Obama's holding a town hall meeting with AARP members to answer questions about his push to overhaul the health care system.

AARP says it has the same beautiful rain forests as its neighbors to the south Costa Rica and Panama, "only wilder and less explored. "

Its magazine, AARP The Magazine, is the largest circulation magazine in the United States.

You can live comfortably in Nicaragua on $18, 000 a year, AARP says, and dinner for two costs about $30.

Park and his co-workers analysed data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study using food frequency questionnaires.

By these standards, AARP runs government budgetary policy, not presidents or congressional leaders.

Yet the group AARP, which represents millions of older Americans, says candidates should keep something in mind.

But that's just "the tip of the iceberg" in this tough economy, says Laurie McCann, senior attorney for AARP.

Study subjects were recruited from AARP members, a group that's healthier than other similarly aged Americans.

AARP was instrumental in pushing a budget-busting prescription-drug benefit for old people through Congress in 2003.

The other is AARP, representing forty million older Americans.

The AARP supports this policy, and agrees with us that reform must happen this year.

Today's recipients of Social Security, along with their powerful AARP lobby, represent a powerful political force.

AARP's line is that any private accounts should supplement Social Security, not replace it, even partially.

An AARP study shows almost 90 percent of Americans age 50 or older claim that as a goal.

In 1998, the organization changed its name from the American Association of Retired Persons to its shortened form - AARP.

The AARP doesn't need a hearing aid manufacturer to function.

Advocacy groups, especially the almost 40m-member AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), have exploited this fear.

For example, a hearing aid manufacturer might like a deal with the AARP, but call it what it is: Advertising, not distribution.

A survey in 2007 for the AARP, an American senior-citizens' lobby, found that more than a fifth of respondents wanted greener burials;

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