Mike Festa

Heat Your Home for Less this Winter

BY MIKE FESTA, STATE DIRECTOR, AARP MASSACHUSETTS  Massachusetts residents are seeing a significant increase in their utility bills this winter, with electricity prices up 64%...

From stress to joy – Reverse Mortgage success stories

By Alain Valles, MBA, MS Yes – for many, reverse mortgages conjure up negative thoughts. But the reality is once one is educated about reverse...
Columnist Janice Lindsay

How to guest a dinner party

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer The winter holidays barrel toward us. If we’re lucky, COVID might slink into the background. Sooner or later, a friend...
Mike Festa

November is National Family Caregivers Month

BY MIKE FESTA, STATE DIRECTOR, AARP MASSACHUSETTS  Family caregivers are an essential part of the health care system across the state. In the Bay State...

Sorting through sentiment

By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D. “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.” ― Amy...
Columnist Janice Lindsay

Finding the inner artist

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer An artist friend gave me a card that says, “We are all artists even if we don’t know how to...
Mike Festa

Fall 2022 brings fraud awareness and financial resilience with AARP MA

BY MIKE FESTA, STATE DIRECTOR, AARP MASSACHUSETTS  This fall, AARP Massachusetts hosts two event series focused on Fraud Awareness and Financial Resilience. The first event...

Reverse Mortgages – Top uses

You've worked hard all your life. Now let your home work for you!  By Alain Valles, MBA, MS A reverse mortgage gives qualified borrowers the option...

Ten Things I Know About Communication

By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D. “You can communicate best when you first listen.”  — Catherine Pulsifer  Older adults are not a homogenous group. For starters, some older...
Janice Lindsay

As luck would have it. Or not.

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer When my husband was a child, his mother told him that it was bad luck to put shoes on the...