Golden Buckeye

Golden Buckeye

The Golden Buckeye program is a free service of the Ohio Department of Aging. Ohio citizens age 60 and over automatically qualify for membership in the program and receive a Golden Buckeye card in the mail, which entitles them to discounts on purchases at participating Ohio merchants as well as prescription drugs.

This program has been in place since the 1970s and is well-known throughout the state, and has given rise to the use of the term "Golden Buckeye" by Ohioans to refer (sometimes snidely) to any older person.

The name of the program comes from the American use of the word "golden" to refer to a person's later life, and "buckeye", the official state tree of Ohio, nickname of the largest state university's athletic team, and general self-referential term for Ohioans.

References

* [http://goldenbuckeye.com/families/buckeye.html Golden Buckeye Program] from the Ohio Department of Aging


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