Aging: Mental Health

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What is Mental Health ?

Morgan RothMay 9th, 2024Written By Angelika Keene, Community Development Agent May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and since the pandemic, a lot more people, organizations, etc., have been starting to have conversations about mental health. But what is mental health, what are the barriers to it, and what can we do to improve it? According to the World […]

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 […]