LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE (AF TER 50)
AARP Hawai‘i’s Volunteer State President Gary Simon and State Director Keali‘i Lopez
They are fierce fighters, inspired advocates and understanding allies. For the team members at AARP Hawai‘i, their work is not just a job, it’s a passion—and quite often, it hits very close to home.
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photo: sean marrs
It’s Personal Y
ou’ll never understand it until it happens to you. For Gary Simon, who has decades of experience in health care, that is more than just a saying. A year after the volunteer state president of AARP Hawai‘i got married in 1994, his wife was forced to leave her job to care for her mother who suffered from dementia. When they moved