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Honoring Family Caregivers

November is National Family Caregivers Month. NCOA joins Caregiver Action Network, The National Alliance for Caregiving, and Share The Care in celebrating family caregivers. Use our #CaregivingAroundtheClock social shareables—complete with sample messaging—to help promote resources available to support our nation's caregivers.

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Job Skills CheckUp helps older workers

Give older adults the tips they need to land a job they love. The new Job Skills CheckUp provides a personalized plan that supports their goals.

Tools and Training: Benefits 101

Give yourself, your staff, or volunteers a refresher about the basics of core benefits for low-income Medicare beneficiaries. Our updated Benefits 101 slides are here to help.

Why you should use the Elder Index

The Elder Index is a measure of the income older adults need to meet their basic needs and age in place with dignity. Use this tool to understand and explain the true cost of aging.

Age+Action proposals due Jan. 9

Be part of the dynamic community that makes the Age+Action Conference a must-attend event each year. Present in-person, virtually, or on-demand. Submit your presentation ideas by Jan. 9.

MEDICARE OPEN ENROLLMENT

Don't be fooled by misleading marketing

Protect older adults from predatory marketing practices by understanding what brokers and agents from private insurance companies are and aren’t allowed to do.

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Upcoming Events

Manage menopause naturally

Tune in Nov. 15 @ 1 p.m. ET to hear Maryon Stewart, author of "Manage Your Menopause Naturally," talk about ways this time of life can be celebrated, not feared.

How to use Census data visualization tools

Hosted by NCOA’s Equity in Aging Collaborative, subject matter experts from the U.S. Census Bureau will discuss demographics related to older adults. Nov. 17 @ 2 p.m. ET

Power up your congregate meal program

Learn to retain congregate meal program participants in the wake of COVID-19, "aging out," and other factors. Nov. 17 @ 3 p.m. ET

Older people in humanitarian crises

Join Grantmakers in Aging and HelpAge USA for a webinar on challenges older people face in disasters. Dec. 1 @ 12 p.m. ET

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This resource was supported in part by grant 90MINC0002-01-01 from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services. Points of view or opinions do not necessarily represent official ACL policy.