Mike Festa

Don’t toss out your stimulus payment with the junk mail

By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts  If you didn't get a paper check, you may get a plastic debit card from the Internal Revenue...

New AARP Analysis: COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes Continued to Increase from August to...

Nationwide, COVID-19 Deaths in Nursing Homes Doubled    By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts COVID-19 continued to take a deadly toll on nursing home residents and...

Thanks a lot, Bulova

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer Eighty years ago, in July of 1941, the few thousand Americans who owned TVs could witness a momentous event, though...

The annual physical and financial housing check-ups

By Alain Valles, CRMP, CSA, MS, MBA, Nonprofit Managing Director The doctor visit Universal advice is to have a physical exam. This gives you the opportunity...
Janice Lindsay

Pondering fast summer, slow winter

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer Why does winter seem to pass sooooo sloooowwwwly while summer goesbysofast? From June through September is four months. From December through...
Columnist Janice Lindsay

Love of the news-on-paper

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer This month marks thirty years since I began writing a freelance column for a local weekly newspaper from my home...

Free seminar on ‘Neuroscience of Tinnitus, Dementia, and Impact of Hearing Loss on Your...

By Dr. Keith Darrow, PhD, Hearing & Balance Centers of New England Free seminar on "The Neuroscience of Tinnitus, Dementia, and Impact of Hearing Loss...
Columnist Janice Lindsay

Pen a complaint. It works.

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer A colorful Work of Art sat on my desk, a piece I created myself, that turned out to be quite...
Mike Festa

Become a volunteer advocate for AARP Massachusetts

By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts AARP Massachusetts has been hard at work building and training a special group of volunteers to join our...
Mike Festa

New AARP Survey Reveals Veterans More Likely to Lose Money to Scams Than Civilians

By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts Massachusetts’ 383,087 military veterans and active-duty service members are at risk of being targeted by scammers. According to...