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• KFF Health News: Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

  June 18, 2025: On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to Read More >

• KFF Health News: As Cannabis Users Age, Health Risks Appear To Grow

  June 12, 2025: Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California-San Diego, tells his students a cautionary tale about a 76-year-old patient who, like many older people, struggled with insomnia. †Read More >

• Houston Tara Member Honored

  March 25, 2019: HOUSTON TARA MEMBER HONORED Congratulations to Carolyn Riggs, a charter member of the TARA Houston chapter, for being recognized by the Texas Democratic Women of Harris County as one of their four “2019 Women Making Hi Read More >

• THINK BIG FOR THE TARA CONVENTION!

  December 15, 2017: Think Big! Think Even Bigger! If TARA activists are audacious, we can change senior voting patterns in Texas next year. Our biggest and most important state convention is set for 1-4 PM on January 19 in Austin. Activists arou Read More >

• Texas Is Down for the Budget Fight

  September 06, 2017: Texans are studying the proposed "Black Budget" from Congresswoman Diane Black (R-TN) in the congressional session begun after Labor Day. In the next few weeks, Republicans intend to pass these proposals listed by our national org Read More >

• Texans Join National Health Care Protests

  May 12, 2017: National Alliance for Retired Americans called for protests of the Republican Health Care law on May 12, 2017. Texans joined in. Organizer Judy Bryant set up our action for 10 AM at Congressman Pete Sessions' Dallas office. Read More >

• Seniors Are Contemplating Strategies

  November 15, 2016: Texas retirees spent very little time commiserating about the presidential election. Our own performance in the Lone Star State was excellent, so we spent no time at all castigating ourselves. What's taking up our time is analyzin Read More >

• Dallas Plans Attack on the Right to Retire

  October 06, 2016: Seniors in Dallas are already receiving their vote-by-mail ballots. The wording for Proposition One is completely unreadable and totally misleading. Fortunately, the Dallas newspaper has provided some insights into what Propositio Read More >

• Phone Banking Works for Seniors!

  October 05, 2016: It's time to phone bank if you want to win in 2016!   [caption id="attachment_1968" align="alignnone" width="1167"] Maralyn Hamaker makes calls to Dallas area seniors[/caption] See https://youtu.be/CW7vQZ5XQl8 for a Read More >

• Dallas Chapter Considers the Issues

  September 07, 2016: We never miss a beat! [caption id="attachment_1940" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Mary Strickland learned technology with Zen Biasco and George Gregory[/caption] The Dallas Chapter of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americ Read More >