Retirement Security

• KFF Health News: Despite Past Storms’ Lessons, Long-Term Care Residents Again Left Powerless

  July 18, 2024: HOUSTON — As Tina Kitzmiller sat inside her sweltering apartment, windows and doors open in the hope of catching even the slightest breeze, she was frustrated and worried for her dog and her neighbors. It had been days since Hurricane Beryl blew...Read more >

• KFF Health News: States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

  July 18, 2024: For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiot...Read more >

• Trump-Vance: Another Step Toward Retirement Insecurity

  July 15, 2024: Selection of J.D. Vance as Vice Presidential Nominee Deepens Fears that Trump Would Cut Social Security, Medicare Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, released the following statement regarding Donald Trump’s...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

  July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps getting more expens...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Marlene Galán-Woods in Primary for Election to U.S. House

  July 11, 2024: Cites Her Commitment to Protecting and Expanding Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits Scottsdale, AZ - The Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced its endorsement of Marlene Galán-Woods in the Democratic primary for Arizona’s ...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Colin Allred for Election to U.S. Senate

  May 31, 2024: Cites His Commitment to Protecting Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits Dallas - Members of the Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced their endorsement of Congressman Colin Allred for election to the U.S. Senate from Texas toda...Read more >

• Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One.

  May 22, 2024: HOUSTON — Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care. The slender, batte...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Ruben Gallego for the U.S. Senate

  May 20, 2024: Cites His Commitment to Expanding and Protecting Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits Phoenix - Members of the Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced their endorsement of Ruben Gallego for election to the U.S. Senate from Arizo...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm

  May 09, 2024: Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises. Even when physicians determine these patients need ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Concerns Grow Over Quality of Care as Investor Groups Buy Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes

  March 14, 2024: Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned by a not-for-profit organ...Read more >