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...level, you can hardly blame the major party candidates. The shoppers, the commuters, the high-tech employees and, yes, the soccer moms--they are registered voters, likely to vote but unsure for whom. They may be fickle, but they have influence too; not quite like the AARP and its waving fields of gray, but a powerful constituency nonetheless. It's why Medicare, prescription drug importation and income tax credits fill the candidates' speeches, even when they are held in school auditoriums and on city streets...
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...much for working in mysterious ways. So much, for that matter, for the AARP being the most powerful lobby in Washington. Forty years after JFK had to promise his Catholicism would have no effect on his presidency, God, whether Christian or Jewish, is everybody's running mate on the campaign trail this year. And the backlash - from folks who actually believe that old saw about the separation of church and state - may finally be starting to rain down...
...AARP survey released this month found that most people ages 45 and older want to stay in their homes as long as possible. This wish belies the fact that nearly 1 in 4 of the 2,000 surveyed predicted that within five years, someone in their household would have trouble getting around...
With the number of elderly Americans expected to double by 2030, when 70 million people will be 65 or older, you'd think we would face up to the reality of the most ubiquitous aging issues: housing, health care and finances. But according to AARP researcher Linda Barrett, most parents and their adult children still avoid the topics...