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Explore all the ways you can learn, earn and reward yourself with AARP Rewards while you use AARP Staying Sharp. And get even more as an AARP member.

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  • Visit the Staying Sharp website daily.
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Staying Sharp is now available to anyone who creates an account on aarp.org and to AARP members. How you spend your day can have a big impact on brain health, research shows. Eat well, move often, see friends, get good sleep, manage stress, keep learning. Staying Sharp will share the whys and the how-tos.

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Members score thousands of AARP Rewards points for joining both programs. They also score points on healthy content wherever they see an AARP Rewards badge. There are hundreds of ways to earn points across AARP.org and Staying Sharp.