[8] Prior to AARP, Love held editorial positions at The Week, Reader's Digest, Rodale's Best Life, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and New York.

One of the first steps was to change the name of the organization's monthly magazine and focus the editorial content on active seniors still in the prime of their lives.

[9] Cover subjects were changed from people such as Betty White, who was 77 at the time, to Susan Sarandon, who had recently turned 52.

Other cover subjects since then have included Bruce Springsteen, Sally Field, Valerie Bertinelli, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Dennis Quaid.

[4] The magazine publishes roughly 52 editorial pages six times a year[7] in three separate editions, one for people ages 50–59, one for readers 60–69, and another for those 70+.