AHA bids a fond farewell to membership and marketing manager Loretta Darst and welcomes Veronica Ferris to fill Loretta’s position. Several of our recurring events are taking a hiatus this month, but our calendar still offers some great events. Financial Literacy has guest speaker Kay Bransford, founder of MemoryBanc. AHA member Howard We recap the AHA Anniversary celebration and share important information about the both the upcoming June election and the changes to Medicare rules.

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AHA had a very successful Spring2ACTion fundraiser this year! We are so grateful to our very generous donors. The AHA May calendar features two new monthly recurring events: ‘AHA Lunch with Nancy’ and ‘Oh Hell! Let’s Play Cards’. The June Financial Literacy event will feature guest speaker, Kay Bransford, author of MemoryBanc: Your Workbook for Organizing Life. This month we celebrate AHA’s 13th Anniversary and invite you to join us in the fun. Click here to read the full May Newsletter.

Spring2ACTion is AHA’s biggest fundraiser of the year and will be April 24. AHA is also reaching out to ask for your help in strengthening our corporate sponsorships. We are thrilled to welcome fourteen new members to AHA but saddened to have to bid farewell to AHA volunteer manager Jenifer Eoff. Read about all this and more in the full April newsletter.

The AHA March Newsletter is available and filled with lots of good information. AHA teamed up with SSA and Northern VA Falls Prevention for a special ‘Fall Prevention Workshop.’ We learned ways to make our homes safer to reduce the risk of falls. But in order to actually lower our risk of suffering a life-altering fall, we need to focus on strengthening and enhancing our balance. The AHA March calendar includes a demo class with an online customized fitness program. Read about other AHA offerings to strengthen your body and mind, how to manage the hospital stay, possible tax breaks that you might be eligible for, Paxlovid, and much more. We have lots to share in the full March 2024 Newsletter!

February 2024 AHA Newsletter brings you the news hot off the presses and includes info about AHA’s participation in the Saving Claire Screening, highlights from the February calendar of events, new and exciting volunteer opportunities, remembering AHA members, an update on the Alexandria History interest group, our new StrongerMemory™ session starting in March and much more. Click here to read the full newsletter..

DC’s Beacon newspaper has a nice article on villages in its January issue. Did you know there are about seventy-five (75) villages in the Greater Washington DC area? Villages work together to share ideas and resources. All thirteen villages in Washington DC have teamed up to become more efficient, creating DC Villages Collaborative (DCVC). Maryland villages can get funding from the state through six grants. Read about this and more in the full article in the January 4, 2024, DC Edition of the Beacon.

The January 2024 AHA Newsletter is now available, and there’s lots of good information to read about. The AHA Board will begin the new year welcoming four new Board Members and saying goodbye to a couple of treasured Board Members. With 2024, AHA also welcomes a number of new corporate sponsors. Our January 2024 Calendar includes some interesting events – including an in-person tour of the Library of Congress, interview with Councilmember Alyia Gaskins and a Tech Thursday session on identifying email scams and how to protect yourself. Read more about all this and more in the full January 2024 AHA Newsletter.

In the December issue of AHA’s Newsletter, Executive Director Cele Garrett speaks to the importance of our Year End Giving and thanks our corporate sponsors for their support in 2023. Cele also shares a generous amount of information in part two of AHA’s Hospice Discussion. AHA member Alan Dinsmore shares information on Parkinson’s diagnoses, and Goodwin Living’s Brain Health Program Director Jessica Fredericksen shares a tip from StrongerMemory. Curious how older drivers can see better after dark? Read up about it in AHA member Bill Clayton’s article.

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Lots of news in the November Newsletter! AHA gears up to participate in Alexandria’s annual Scottish Christmas parade on December 2. Interest Groups are launched as another means of social connections. There’s also a follow-up article to the September’s event about hospice care. The calendar is full with in-person and Zoom events.

AHA sadly says farewell to very loyal and longtime members Penelope “Penny” Roberts and Maggie and Barry Stauffer.

Click here to view the November Newsletter and, in it, the Calendar of Events.

AHA is ramping up its tech support for members. Tech Thursday, a recurring group tech training session, will be held on the third Thursday of every month. Tech volunteers are also available to help members with troubleshooting or one-on-one training. AHA member Howard Weiss continues his monthly interviews this month with Councilman Canek Aguire. AHA member Brenda Bloch Young shares a financial tip and AHA member Alan Dinsmore shares information about Medicare price negotiations for ten drugs. Learn more about these things, catch up on more news and view AHA’s October 2023 events calendar in the October AHA Newsletter.