Action Alerts

Seniors deserve comfortable retirements

Aging Watch director responds to Orlando Sentinel columnist who asserts that the $250 checks being mailed to older Americans this year — in lieu of a cost-of-living increase to Social Security — constitutes “political pandering…if [seniors] don’t need it and don’t deserve it.”



Cartoon depicts image of “dangerous older driver”

In the June 17th edition of the Boston Globe: syndicated cartoonist Dan Wasserman depicts a cranky old man at the wheel of a car that has just plowed through the wall of a DMV office. In case you did not recognize the driver as aged, a front bumper license plate reads “OVR 80.” As [...]