ADVISORY/MetLife Sponsors Nationally Recognized Health Care Experts At "AARP Celebrates 2000;" MetLife is a Primary Sponsor of "AARP Celebrates 2000".

Business Editors

ADVISORY ... for May 16 - 18

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a primary sponsor of the "AARP Celebrates 2000" convention, will present the "Staying Healthy" Issue Track at the event to be held May 16th to May 18th, 2000 at Orlando, Florida's Orange County Convention Center. The series will feature such notable personalities and topics as:

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Medical Correspondent, ABC News:

"Do You Know How to be a Wise Healthcare Consumer?"

Jane Brody, Personal Health Columnist, The New York Times:

"You Are What You Eat...So Do It Well."

Dr. Emily Senay, Medical Correspondent, CBS News:

"Women's Health and the Key to a Good Life."

Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Dean, Harvard Medical School:

"Men's Health and the Key to a Good Life."

Dr. Deepak Chopra, Physician, Author: "Breaking Tradition:

Alternative Medicine."

Rita Moreno, Fitness Activist. "So you Think Life

Ends at 50? Think Again!"

MetLife's spokesbeagle, Snoopy, will also be on hand for photos with attendees.

MetLife is a partner in AARP Health Care Options which makes the AARP Long-Term Care Insurance Plan from MetLife available to AARP members in all 50 states of the U.S. MetLife is the largest group long-term care insurer in the country in terms of insured individuals and premium in force business.

Long thought a leader on issues faced by older Americans, MetLife's Mature Market Institute recently released the MetLife Juggling Act Study which reported that the average caregiver is subject to more than $659,000 in lost wages, lost social security and pension contributions and other costs because they leave their jobs, take time off or experience compromised opportunities for training, promotions and "plum" assignments. Sandra Timmermann, Ed.D., Director of the MetLife Mature Market Institute, will also be stationed at the MetLife booth to discuss the study's findings and other topics relating to the older market.

The Mature Market Institute is MetLife's comprehensive resource center for issues concerning the mature market. The Institute, staffed by gerontologists, provides training and education, consultation and information to support MetLife, its corporate customers and business partners.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of MetLife, Inc., is a leading provider of insurance and financial services to individual and group customers. The company, with $418.8 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 1999, on a pro-forma basis, including the acquisition of GenAmerica Corporation, serves approximately nine million individual households in the U.S. and companies and institutions with 33 million employees and members. MetLife also has international insurance operations in 10 countries. For more information about MetLife, please visit the company's Web site at www.metlife.com.