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talking about giving back and caregiving
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this morning and scott we can ask of
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aarp kentucky
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certainly knows about both but scott
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before we talk about that and the
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mission
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and how caregiving is integrated into
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that with aarp kentucky
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what is aarp and who is it for
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good morning everybody it's good to be
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with you angie aarp was founded in 1958
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and it was started to make sure that
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as we age everyone has the resources
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that they need to age well and that is
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why dr ethel percy andrus the founder
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began
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aarp and his social mission has
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continued today and that is to make sure
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that as we all age um we have
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dignity and purpose in that process and
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arp kentucky is one of the 50 state
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offices
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across the country so we have a
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nationwide presence and we deliver
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information and resources with our
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volunteers
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to members and non-members alike across
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the state and in kentucky we have about
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445
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000 aarp members
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we publish the arp magazine every month
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in the aarp bulletin which is really my
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favorite um it's a great resource
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it's just one of the many things that
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arp membership delivers
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so arp is diverse just like our
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membership
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and we are working routinely
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um in the capitol in washington d.c
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we fight for advocacy and and
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definitely um all the things that
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everyone needs
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at age 50 plus absolutely
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and do you know what's the average age i
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mean like you said from age 50 plus by
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the way
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i'm almost there i will certainly be
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joining as a member
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that's for sure well what's your average
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age
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i'm not certain what the average age is
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but what we find is that our members
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want these resources um and it's
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it's based on the life cycle if you will
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where you're at with your family where
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you're at
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in your life and what do you need at
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that point where you have adult children
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whether you're a caregiver you're in the
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sandwich generator generation
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where you're caring for your your adult
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children and your gran
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and your parents so there's a very
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diverse range of
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age within arp membership starts at 50
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technically but you can join anybody can
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join any time
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come on you and i have had this
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conversation before because one of the
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things that i have always thought of
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aarp
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was just in my head i'm going to be
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living it
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is i'm going to be living until i'm no
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longer living and that
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has really always been my impression of
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what aarp is regardless of what my
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circumstances are so i've
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i'm you're exactly right i can join now
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but that's something you are trying no
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matter how
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people are in their life they get the
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best quality
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of life regardless and caregiving
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is a huge part of aarp
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and it has to be angie because what we
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know is
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right now today in kentucky there's some
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640
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000 individuals that are delivering
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some sort of family caregiving for a
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loved one
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typically what we do know is that
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typically falls to a female member of
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the family
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in her mid to late 40s who has taken
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care of a mother or
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a father or a sibling
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um so that is
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arp has been working on this on our
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caregiving resources
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a good many years not to put a date on
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it
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but we've got experts and we've got
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resources
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with research and information and
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advocacy
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and particularly right now during covet
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it's more important than ever
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the caregivers are getting the
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information that they need
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and what you're going to hear more of
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about aarp kentucky is the outreach that
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we do across kentucky with our
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volunteers and online and zoom meetings
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and the special caregiving resources
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that we have for aarp
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veterans arp members and the public who
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are veterans
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absolutely we'll hear from charles
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williams coming up in just a little bit
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who will definitely address that
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i want to go back to one word that you
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said because i know they're so
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important to you scott volunteers
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volunteers make the world go round in so
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many ways and especially at aarp
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you know i'm not going to use the word
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army but there is literally
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across the country nationwide arp has
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volunteers who are doing giving back
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so much more to their communities they
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do tremendous work
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because why they care so we love our
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volunteers and they do
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great work well we'd love that
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you're a part of today's show the giving
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back show we're going to be talking more
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about caregiving and like scott said
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we'll talk more with
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members volunteers with aarp but to
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connect with aarp
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kentucky and they have a host of
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resources there
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visit aarp.org
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