Your education typically begins at the childcare level, then on to kindergarten, elementary, junior high school, high school, then undergraduate and post graduate education. However, the common phrase, “we never stop learning” leaves doors open for your continuing education in all walks of life.
Indeed, one never stops learning. In the case of older adults, and post retirement age adults, there are various means of educating yourself to align yourself with your golden years.
Whether that education addresses your health, employment, finances, traveling, exercise, or one of the many areas that now affect your life, there are valuable sources via workshops, webinars, tutorials to better your older self.
Educating yourself on many levels is covered by the lead in older adult information, AARP. It offers a number of webinars you can watch on any given topic. You can watch LIVE or at a time of convenience. You simply need to establish and log into your AARP account (membership is not required). Social Security benefits/retirement and Medicare benefits are a big factor for older adults. Educating yourself prior to your retirement is essential to your overall golden years.
Educate yourself on the following topics:
Social Security
- Filing for Social Security: Sometimes Timing is Everything
- Contemplating Social Security Decisions That Can Be Costly
Medicare
- Key topics to consider about Medicare initial enrollment
- A seamless Medicare transition: What to expect and how to prepare:
- Medicare that fits your life: A Guide to Open Enrollment:
- Frequently asked Medicare questions:
- Open Enrollment: Maximizing Your Medicare choices
- Medicare: Prepare for initial enrollment
- Common Medicare mistakes to avoid
- Considering Medicare when caregiving
- Medicare made easy
- (Part 1) Making Medicare work for you: Exploring your options
- (Part 2) Making Medicare work for you: Making decisions based on your needs and lifestyle
Fraud
How to Spot and Stop a Scam
- Avoid Scams this Holiday season and beyond
- Recognize & guard against new scams
- Staying safe as scams evolve
- The New currency of scams, gift card payments
Caregiving
How family doctors and caregivers can work together
- Having a say in your loved one’s health care
- The costs of care & how to pay for It
- Get organized and declutter like a pro
- Making sense of professional care options you can get at home & who pays
Savings & Planning
- Tips to help get Your financial matters in order
- Money moves to make today for our future
These resources and more are all available to you at the aarp.org website. Educate yourself from the king of older adult resources. Whether it be retirement benefits or compiling a new resume for a part-time job, health and nutrition information or making your older adult life more comfortable and safe, AARP.org is your source of education.
