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Are you an older woman seeking to live your best life at every age? If so, The Ethel  is for you. Named after AARP’s amazing founder, Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, The Ethel  is a community of like-minded women seeking to smash stereotypes around aging. Here’s how to be a part of it. Subscribe to the free weekly Ethel  newsletter, packed with the best articles on health, money, sex, relationships and lifestyle.
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Follow The Ethel on Facebook, a place where mature women own the conversation. With more than 100,000 followers, the mission of this offshoot of the free weekly Ethel e-newsletter is to smash stereotypes surrounding aging and come together as a community so that we can be loud, heard, and connected.

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Launched in August 2022, The Ethel Circle is a closed Facebook group, an arm of the main Ethel page. This community has been formed under the umbrella of “healthy aging”. It’s designed as a safe space in which you can share concerns, tips, questions — anything related to healthy aging. This closed group enables you to put up your own posts.

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AARP Founder Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus once said, “old age is not a defeat, but a victory, not a punishment, but a privilege.” Born in 1884, the activist founded in 1958 what was then known as the American Association of Retired Persons, which became AARP, the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering older people to choose how they live as they age.