Aging: Mental Health

Stress Management

Aging Healthy: Maintaining Our Mental Health

Maria Portelos-RometoMay 7th, 2024In our last Aging Healthy series post, we talked about visiting our healthcare providers and the importance of regular office visits. Today, we’ll focus on mental health. As we age and go into retirement, we sometimes find ourselves losing—or perhaps entirely without—daily connections to the world. We might no longer have a job that keeps […]

Learning about Youth Online Peer Support

Amanda QuintosFebruary 12th, 2024For better or for worse, the Internet has had profound effects on the ways that people connect. When I was younger, face-to-face interactions and phone calls with peers I saw at school or extracurricular activities largely shaped the landscape of my social life. Now, with a plethora of apps, platforms, and online forums, it has […]

Recognizing Value – Mental Health Blogging Series

Daniel GonzalezFebruary 8th, 2024By Daniel Gonzalez (UF/IFAS Extension Palm Beach County) and Chelsea Jones (Cornell Cooperative Extension Cortland County)    We welcome you back to our mental health blogging series. This is our final installment of the series in which we will recap everything we have discussed in the last 10 months, and wrap-up with recognizing the value […]